The linked article has more to say that haven't been brought up. Such as,,,,
"The one-time jump in rates also includes increases in costs that would come even without the law, Bertolini said.
“That just seems silly,” said Gary Claxton, a vice president at Kaiser Family Foundation, a Menlo Park, California- based nonprofit that studies health issues.
“I can’t imagine anything going on in the small-group market that would change the average premium that much. On the individual market, there’s arguments for things changing, but those magnitudes seem high.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/aetna-ceo-sees-obama-health-law-doubling-some-premiums.htm
And that's the whole thing, the healthcare industry does what it wants, when it wants to do it and hasn't ever let prices that rise faster than the CPI and wages get in the way. And that's where the healthcare reform was misdirected from the beginning.
People and businesses pay more than the rest of the world by almost double. Between 1999-2009 insurance premiums went up 131%, while wages went up a meager 38%!
Obamacare should be terminated and
our leaders should look at the facts why healthcare is so expensive in the US compared with the rest of the world and then do something about it. Of course the healthcare industry owns Washington thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars it pours into Washington to protect it's ability to rape the US.
Neither party has gone to bat for the American people and our business sector. They just cower in the corner with their hands out taking in the healthcare industry's cold cash.
