Many Americans shopping for better health insurance deals promised by
the two-week-old Obamacare system are instead being slapped with rate
shock, including savings-sapping deductibles and co-pays, according to
multiple reports from around the country.
For some able to get the problem-plagued Obamacare website to work,
the so-called “deals” the system is coughing up around the country
include $12,600 deductibles, co-pays of up to 40 percent, zero
competition, and rate hikes of 260 percent.
The huge cost increases that some Obamacare applicants are seeing are
feeding the effort in Congress to change the system and delay
implementation until January 2014.
"This is why we've been working so hard to dismantle and repeal this
bill, so that we can begin to pass step-by-step reforms that transform
the health care delivery system by putting patients in charge, giving
them more choices, and reducing the cost of health care so that more
people can afford it,” said Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander.
The top Republican on the Senate health committee has collected
several official and media reports of the Obamacare horror stories
Americans have encountered so far. They include:
-- A $12,600 deductible. CNNMoney
reported that one family “found a bronze-level plan for roughly $357 a
month, after their subsidy, which they could swing. But it comes with a
$12,600 family deductible.”
-- Enormous rate increases. A research group found that a 30-year-old male nonsmoker “will see his lowest cost insurance option increase 260 percent.”
-- Some who already buy their own insurance are receiving cancellation notices -- and offers for expensive new policies. The Christian Science Monitor
reported on a North Carolina family who had been buying Blue Cross and
Blue Shield insurance for $380-a-month. “BCBS is offering them a new
plan for three times the cost, $1,124.50 a month, still with an $11,000
deductible,” reports the paper.
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