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Health care reform bill vs. individual insurance buyers

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:10:00 +0000

Here are some common questions raised by those who buy insurance themselves. The answers come from the White House, but are slightly edited for a

Billy Wilson

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:15:08 +0000

This is pure BS. Propaganda from the anointed one.

Brian

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:21:05 +0000

My rate is going up 21% due to the bill where did you find your miss information?

Michael D. Engle

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:27:14 +0000

I am very happy about the Health Care Bill passage. I am encouraged that we finally have a gov. that appears to care about people instead of war. I am very happy that George W. Bush turned me into a Democrate.
I would like to see all registered Republicans refuse their Social Security and Medicare payments and make their protest voices heard. I agree that they should not be forced to have help that they don't want. They should have freedom of choice. If the republicans were removed from all gov. benefit programs this would help the national debt a great deal. It would also allow them to feel like pure capitalists.

Barbara H

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:30:10 +0000

My insurance premiums just jumped 35%. That was after they jumped 30% the previous year - requiring that I raise my deductible to $5000.00. And I only used my coverage for preventative service -ever! I have not yet seen any benefit from the "new" health care either.

cathy t

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:48:57 +0000

I have been self employed for a long time and one reality I had to face was that my health insurance could be either pulled out from under me when I needed it most or the rates deliberately escalated so that I would have to drop the policy. While I would still like to be able to choose a good public option on the exchange I am grateful for the relief from worry this bill has given me. Just wish we could move up the start date on the exchanges. Also without this bill we would have all continued to be at the mercy of the insurance companies' drive to up profits and compensation without regard for the collateral damage it was having on our nations health and well being. Thank you Mr. President and all who voted for this bill.

Stefan

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:50:39 +0000

I have to wait that long for the law to take place? 2014!! So I take it the insurance companies are doing what the credit cards companies did before the credit card act became effective. such is life! I have put up with high rate for this long... 2 more years (I hope) will not kill me.

terry medeiros

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:55:39 +0000

The people commenting on this site are morons. The only reason rates are increasing now is because the new plan doesn't go into effect until september and these safeholds that should have been in place decades ago aren't up yet. Rates will go down because they won't be able to make excessive overhead. The large companies aren't going to be able to make the money they are making now. They know that and that's why they are increasing rates before they are forced to decrease rates again. Anyone who doesn't like the new laws are ignorant.

m. bain

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:08:13 +0000

PLEASE -- if you cannot spell or write a complete sentence, learn how.... the ignorance of the English language makes me NUTS.

PCL

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:08:45 +0000

This is all just so f'ing wonderful; all our health care troubles are over! I think the US government should build on this "success" by mandating the following:
1. That all employers pay EACH of their workers at least $150,0000 per year.
2. That all fast food restaurants be required to sell only items that make people thinner, stronger and more sexually potent, yet still taste like deep fried, cholesterol loaded lumps of bacon.
3. That all woman's jeans sold anywhere make their wearers look thin and fit.

If the government would just GUARANTEE these things, we'd have a happy, healthy nation.

gerry

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:17:01 +0000

I agree with the person who wrote that all republicans should drop their social security and medicare and let them buy insurance them seves...what a great country this would be..

Nate

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:19:17 +0000

Well put Billy.

My rates went up as well.

to Engle

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:21:59 +0000

Engle -

Your argument is not well reasoned.

Allow them to opt out of paying <b>and</b> receiving benefits, and you'll see the whole farce crumble. To take money from them and ask them to refuse receiving any form of it back is simply ignorant.

Dan Smith

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:30:17 +0000

Your rates went up because the bill largely doesn't take effect until 2014. In the meantime, insurance companies, unregulated as they now are, will gouge you as much as they possibly can in what should be an all too obvious attempt to line their dirty pockets for massive short term gains.

Barry

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:35:16 +0000

Let me get this straight. Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose Chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress which hasn't read it, signed by a President who smokes, funded by a Treasury Chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that is nearly broke.

Jeffrey Arnold MD

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:06:36 +0000

This article is clearly slated and biased. Health insurance rates will increase...and by quite a bit.

Somebody has to pay for this and who do you think it is? Us! The notion of someone being able to buy insurance when they feel they need it is preposterous.

Our president is showing his true intentions and doesn't have a clue as to what is going on.

BR

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:09:36 +0000

"Will I pay more than I am paying today?

A: No. "

LIE! Who wrote this third grade article?

Kathy

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:15:34 +0000

Pleeeease!! To the people bitching about their rates going up - my insurance premiums, copay's, etc have been going up every year for the past few years. To say it's all because of the new HP bill is a bunch of BS!

John Smith

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:54:48 +0000

It's times like this I'm glad I live in Canada. With my government provided healthcare I can get an appointment with my doctor today, and (if I needed to) get a referral to whatever specialist I want. And all I have to pay are taxes comparable to what you guys in the states pay.

Dude

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:28:05 +0000

John, how much do you pay in Canadain taxes? Better yet, if someone earns $50k a year, how much do they pay in income tax. Then include sales and property tax. I am trying to figure out where all this money comes from.

Deborah

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:55:25 +0000

Mr Billy Wilson is willfully ignorant. Such people hold onto their inaccurate information in the face of facts, which he probably got from Rush or Palin or the other blowhard liars who are using Wilson's ignorance to fatten their pocketbooks. Wake up and begin thinking for yourselves.

kirk wilkinson

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:47:39 +0000

What's the big fuss? We are paying for it already, now all the costs will be in the open. Heavan forbid that we should want all our fellow citizens benefiting from equal health care coverage. What's wrong with expecting each citizen to accept to their best ability responsibility for their healthcare. The only reason that we did not get 'single payer' was because the Democrates serve the same paymaster as the Republicans - Corpporate America. Don't worry, the insurance industry is going to make out just fine, they are going to be more powerful than ever. Just like our friends on Wall Street. It's ironic that it took the Democrates to pass a Republican health care bill. As Ronald Reagan instructed "don't worry be happy"