Again, without any reason given, we have been notified of a third increase in our health insurance premium rate within the last two years! My wife and teenage kids have coverage by MVP’s Healthy NY with Rx [prescription]. In 2009 we were paying $476 per month. Suddenly premiums went to $523 per month, and within six months they were up again to $621. We were just mailed notice of another increase of 11.6 percent starting in 2012! That translates to $684.83 per month — a whopping $200-plus increase per month within two years. We can’t go without health insurance. So I hold several part-time jobs, and my wife has three jobs as we try to make ends meet. Our wages have not increased commensurate with these health-care increases. I was laid off a month ago but have not filed for unemployment; probably should have. Instead, I kicked another line of self-employment up a notch. I wonder how other folks are doing. My thought is that health insurance companies are hedging their bets by increasing the size of their coffers, because of uncertainty about the direction of health care under the current policies of the administration in Washington. And I thought I clearly heard that healthinsurance costs would be stabilized under the anticipated national health care plan. When it all settles, will we see our rates reduced? Ever? Not likely! Unless pigs start to fly.
I thought obama promised LOWER private healthcare costs?
How is that suppose to happen when obama placed a 'surcharge' on private insurance companies to help pay for obamacare? And how is that suppose to happen when the government added mandates to private insurance companies????
what a crock!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
James should not look at his rates going up as a negative. He need to look at is as he is now paying his "fair share". He is helping pay for the heath care for "poor" who cannot afford health care. Paying higher premiums should be looked at as sort of benevolence. James Shaffer is probably a "rich" "racist" "greedy" conservative complaining about his higher premiums because he doesn't want to pay his "fair share" and he hates "poor" people.
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