Recent content by orwell

I was away from home writing on my phone yesterday. You are right I am not now paying $675 per month. I'm actually paying $623.65 per month!! But I'm coming up with a premium of $993, not $933 for the Highmark Gold Flex Blue PPO 1200. Did you actually get $933 or was that a typo? In any...

Zip code 16601 in PA. 4 people in household , ages 53, 49, 22 and 20. Currently have BC/BS Highmark PPO Blue 1200 HSA plan that costs me $675 per month. It pays for checkups and preventative care, but otherwise has a family deductible of $2,400. It is being canceled. The most similar ACA plan...

How? Do you know something the three insurance agents I consulted do not? I have to choose a worse policy with higher deductibles and a higher OOP maximum and pay much more than I pay now. I would gladly switch to a Canadian/European system rather than pay $10,000 to $17,000 a year for a policy...

From what orifice did you pull that? That's not at all what the linked article says or implies. The ACA was a huge gift/payoff to the big health insurance companies. Here, we'll make a law saying people have to buy your service. And we'll chip in billions of tax dollars that go in your coffers...

My current family policy is being canceled. I pay $624 per month. The most similar plan with the same insurance company I can find on the exchange costs $1,407 per month. That's a 125 percent increase. For what family is a $1,407 per month - $16,884 per year - "AFFORDABLE"? And after paying the...