Funny how GOP Gov. run states Arizonia, OK, and TN have the biggest

[Penelope]

problems with the ACA. Most GOP states do not like the ACA, but those 3 seem to have big issues, almost like they are kicking insurances off the exchange. Strange is all.

 

[Penelope]

Workers' costs increase for health insurance

Most to pay bigger share of employers' 2008 plans

Ken Alltucker
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Companies are increasingly tackling rising medical-care costs by sharing the pain with employees through health plans that skimp on benefits or charge more for basic health services.

And with enrollment season under way at businesses across the Valley, many employees are coming to grips with the fact that their health plans will cost more and deliver less in 2008.

In fact, more than half of U.S. companies, or 56 percent, plan to trim their health-care tabs next year by requiring that their employees make a larger premium contribution or pay higher deductibles, co-pays or out-of-pocket contributions, according to survey findings from the Mercer Health & Benefits report.

That means many workers will see a larger chunk of their pay docked up-front for health-care expenses.

It could also mean that they will have fewer options in the types of plans offered to them, or may have to enroll in high-deductible plans that substantially increase out-of-pocket costs.

"We certainly have reached the tipping point in regard to small- and mid-sized (companies') ability to absorb the increasing costs of health care," said Jim Hertel, publisher of the Arizona Managed Care Newsletter.

The exact amount employees will be required to pay varies depending on the size of the company, types of plans offered and other factors.

But health-care premium costs for large companies nationwide will jump an average of 8.7 percent per employee next year, according to a survey by Illinois-based Hewitt Associates. The survey predicts a similar premium increase next year for national companies with employees in the Phoenix area, but the survey does not measure smaller companies based in Phoenix.

Phoenix-area employees already tend to pay a higher portion of their health-care premiums than the national average, and that won't change. Hewitt reported the average Phoenix worker next year would pay 25.3 percent of the premium, higher than the national employee contribution of 21.4 percent.

Workers' costs increase for health insurance

 

[TheOldSchool]

During the ACA rollout and continuing today, it's been the goal of GOP Governors and legislatures to heap as much pain as possible on their constituents for political gain.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

That's Repubs for you. They're more than willing to kill people rather than let Americans have the same quality health care ins we buy for them.

 

[saveliberty]

Link to where any state is excluding insurance companies as providers.

 

[Penelope]

Link to where any state is excluding insurance companies as providers.

Better Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for red state Americans

Just like what they are doing now, bad talking it, speaking of repeal since day one, making consumers and insurance companies leery of staying in or getting in. Bad talking the site, and making it difficult to get insurance on the site, I think NC even made it against the law for a family member to help another family member to sign up online.

Instead of going after insurance companies, the GOP decided to attack the ACA and Obama, and in return screwed the people of the US royally.

 

[saveliberty]

Link to where any state is excluding insurance companies as providers.

Better Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for red state Americans

Just like what they are doing now, bad talking it, speaking of repeal since day one, making consumers and insurance companies leery of staying in or getting in. Bad talking the site, and making it difficult to get insurance on the site, I think NC even made it against the law for a family member to help another family member to sign up online.

Instead of going after insurance companies, the GOP decided to attack the ACA and Obama, and in return screwed the people of the US royally.

Insurance companies are bailing because they can't make money period. The site is not state run but federal moron.

 

[Penelope]

Link to where any state is excluding insurance companies as providers.

Better Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for red state Americans

Just like what they are doing now, bad talking it, speaking of repeal since day one, making consumers and insurance companies leery of staying in or getting in. Bad talking the site, and making it difficult to get insurance on the site, I think NC even made it against the law for a family member to help another family member to sign up online.

Instead of going after insurance companies, the GOP decided to attack the ACA and Obama, and in return screwed the people of the US royally.

Insurance companies are bailing because they can't make money period. The site is not state run but federal moron.

Wrong, and you didn't read the articles I posted.

 

[saveliberty]

Wrong, and you didn't read the articles I posted.

Link to where any state is excluding insurance companies as providers.

Better Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for red state Americans

Just like what they are doing now, bad talking it, speaking of repeal since day one, making consumers and insurance companies leery of staying in or getting in. Bad talking the site, and making it difficult to get insurance on the site, I think NC even made it against the law for a family member to help another family member to sign up online.

Instead of going after insurance companies, the GOP decided to attack the ACA and Obama, and in return screwed the people of the US royally.

Insurance companies are bailing because they can't make money period. The site is not state run but federal moron.

Wrong, and you didn't read the articles I posted.

You post an article, an article from 2013. You see a problem with that?

Epic Fail: Where Four State Health Exchanges Went Wrong

 

[saveliberty]

Insurance companies who offer policies on the Obamacare exchanges are worried about the financial sustainability of the Obamacare marketplaces and are looking for big increases in premiums next year.

If they don't get what they want, many companies will probably drop out of Obamacare altogether.

The Hill:

“Something has to give,” said Larry Levitt, an expert on the health law at the Kaiser Family Foundation. “Either insurers will drop out or insurers will raise premiums.”

While analysts expect the market to stabilize once premiums rise and more young, healthy people sign up, some observers have not ruled out the possibility of a collapse of the market, known in insurance parlance as a “death spiral.”

In the short term, there is a growing likelihood that insurers will push for substantial premium increases, creating a political problem for Democrats in an election year.



Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/insurance_companies_obamacare_losses_are_unsustainable.html#ixzz4Zv3RJ8eq
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