Just got new health insurance RATES!!!

Originally Posted by unknownk

What makes you think that without the new laws health care would have gone down at all?



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This chart is from way before the new insurance act, if anything more people into the system has made the skyrocketing costs slightly better not worse. Sure plans that covered much less were cheaper, but why pay for insurance if whatever you get is a pre existing condition and not covered at all?

Self employed people get a small fine if they don't have insurance (assuming you get a refund on your federal taxes), its not like you have a gun to your head.

But we were promised health care costs would go down. Now we can't even afford the health insurance we are "required" to buy. My wife (who was covering me) just had the insurance premium go from $250 a month to $550 a month. It was bad enough when I just had to worry about paying for health problems. Now I have to worry about paying a mortgage payment for insurance that does not pay for health problems... and I still cannot afford to pay for my health problems. He!!, if I had the $500/mo to pay for health insurance, I would be making payments on my student loans.