North Carolina Premiums To Rise

[Bloodrock44]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

 

[Rozman]

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

What a shock!

 

[Rozman]

ObamaCare needed the younger healthier people to fund this scam....
So the younger healthier people are allowed to be covered under their parents plan....

Didn't the jackasses that wrote this thing see any problem with that....

Geeez!

 

[Two Thumbs]

I'd like to spike the ball and do the 'I told you so" dance.

but, people are getting fucked over left and right and the admin just keeps going and going, knowing the harm it's doing.

and the leftist of usmb cheer.

 

[Two Thumbs]

ObamaCare needed the younger healthier people to fund this scam....
So the younger healthier people are allowed to be covered under their parents plan....

Didn't the jackasses that wrote this thing see any problem with that....

Geeez!

No.

why?

math

 

[itfitzme]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

"What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA? "

When and compared to what?

 

[Bloodrock44]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

"What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA? "

When and compared to what?

Watch the video

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o65vMUk5so]Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year - YouTube[/ame]

 

[itfitzme]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

The article doesn't say anything about how health care premiums and costs are or will be except "could mean higher premiums in the future"

Duh! everything has always been higher in the future....

 

[itfitzme]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

"What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA? "

When and compared to what?

Watch the video

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o65vMUk5so]Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year - YouTube[/ame]

Why? Can't you answer the question? You seem to know something...

 

[itfitzme]

Here is some solid data on health care costs.

Historical - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

 

[itfitzme]

Ah, here is a Kiaser health care cost calculator.

Subsidy Calculator | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

 

[Bloodrock44]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

The article doesn't say anything about how health care premiums and costs are or will be except "could mean higher premiums in the future"

Duh! everything has always been higher in the future....

Duh. Why didn't your Messiah say that instead of saying they would decrease by $2500?

 

[Bloodrock44]

"What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA? "

When and compared to what?

Watch the video

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o65vMUk5so]Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year - YouTube[/ame]

Why? Can't you answer the question? You seem to know something...

The video answered the question. Quit deflecting. You seem to know nothing.

 

[Bloodrock44]

"What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA? "

When and compared to what?

Watch the video

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o65vMUk5so]Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year - YouTube[/ame]

Why? Can't you answer the question? You seem to know something...

Why did you answer the question with a question? Can't answer the original question? I'll ask it again. What happened o the promise families would save $2500 per year?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Watch the video

Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year - YouTube

Why? Can't you answer the question? You seem to know something...

Why did you answer the question with a question? Can't answer the original question? I'll ask it again. What happened o the promise families would save $2500 per year?

Put that " promise" in context, please. Then we can discuss it honestly.

Thanks.

 

[Bloodrock44]

Why? Can't you answer the question? You seem to know something...

Why did you answer the question with a question? Can't answer the original question? I'll ask it again. What happened o the promise families would save $2500 per year?

Put that " promise" in context, please. Then we can discuss it honestly.

Thanks.

So he didn't sign a contract and say "I promise", but that's what Americans heard...over and over again. And that's what they expected. Along with "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." And if you like your plan you can keep your plan. Now about the "statement" that Americans would save an average of $2500 a year. It's happening, right?

 

[Star]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?

Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

Generally speaking, if you're 95% correct you earn an A or sometimes even an A+ but-----but when Obama is 95% correct, factcheck gives him lie of the year -- rightwing ownership of the media, youbetcha!

But back to the title of this thread "North Carolina Premiums To Rise" the question is, other than just the natural course of the marketplace - if healthcare costs rise, insurance companies raise premiums and-----and according to the Charlotte Observer: "It [Obamacare] was designed to provide insurance for people who don’t have access to coverage through their employers. It created an online exchange where low- and middle-income earners can buy private insurance with government subsidies.

The law called for the poorest of the uninsured to be covered by expanding Medicaid. Instead of letting the states pick up the tab, the federal government promised to cover all of the cost of the expansion for the first three years and no less than 90 percent in later years.

But last year, when the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law, it also decreed that states couldn’t be mandated to expand Medicaid."

Every state in the Deep South, except for Arkansas, rejected the Medicaid expansion. Like North Carolina and South Carolina, most of those states are led by Republican governors who are philosophically opposed to the Affordable Care Act."


Bottom line - in addition to the invisible hand of the marketplace according to the Charlotte Observer North Carolina politicians have increased: "The annual cost to North Carolina’s hospitals of not expanding Medicaid is estimated to be as much as $660 million, based on an analysis conducted for the N.C. Institute of Medicine by the N.C. Division of Medical Assistance."

and-----and according to the Charlotte Observer: "Bob Seehausen, senior vice president of Novant Health, said the Winston-Salem-based hospital system estimated it would have received $37 million a year in new Medicaid revenues “to cover people we’ve been treating on an uninsured basis.”

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[JakeStarkey]

Overall, though the blue numbers will need to improve, the chart spells the beginning of the end of the resistance to ACA.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Why did you answer the question with a question? Can't answer the original question? I'll ask it again. What happened o the promise families would save $2500 per year?

Put that " promise" in context, please. Then we can discuss it honestly.

Thanks.

So he didn't sign a contract and say "I promise", but that's what Americans heard...over and over again. And that's what they expected. Along with "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." And if you like your plan you can keep your plan. Now about the "statement" that Americans would save an average of $2500 a year. It's happening, right?

No....put the "$2500 per family savings" comment into context, please. What was he referring to when he said that? What exactly was he saying?

Thanks.

 

[billyerock1991]

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina yesterday announced premiums would rise due to the fact that only 32% of the new enrollees under the age of 34 signed up for healthcare under the ACA. In order for premiums not to rise, they would have needed 50% to be 34 or younger. What happened to the promise that families would save $2500 per year under the ACA?


(BR)If you're going to say what happen to that 2500 dollars a year you were promised, says you didn't comprehend what the president and the liberals/dems in congress said ... they clearly said without any stuttering of any kind, they said you can save up to 2500.dollars they never said you will save 2500 dollars ... the key words here are up to... for me I saved 3000.00 for the year ... and I didn't expect it to be so high of a savings ... so does that make obama a liar because I made 500.00 dollars more then was projected

now for all those health care experts out their ... I believe they can't raise your rates until the next time you are able to sign up ... I'm not sure of that ...I remember reading that some where ...



Blue Cross: Older, sicker sought coverage under health law :: WRAL.com

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The people who signed up for health coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace are older and sicker than expected, which could mean higher premiums in the future, the insurer said Thursday.

Blue Cross was one of only two companies to offer plans in North Carolina through the online marketplace, and as of May 1, 232,000 people were on Blue Cross marketplace plans. Seventy percent of them didn't have coverage through Blue Cross previously, the company said.

Initial Blue Cross projections called for 50 percent of the marketplace customers to be 34 years old or younger, but after the enrollment period ended on March 31, the company found that only 32 percent of the people who signed up under the federal health care law fit that profile. Forty percent are ages 35 to 54, and 29 percent are 55 or older.

BCBS is looking for a reason to raise their rates that's my opinion