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Heritage
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How
Much Is Your Health Insurance Going Up?
Kelsey
Harris
October
11, 2013
Have
you gotten a letter from your insurance company about your premiums
going up? Has your employer told you that more will be coming out of
your paycheck to pay for your health plan?
President
Obama promised that Obamacare would lower premiums by $2,500. But
instead, Americans everywhere are facing higher premiums because of
Obamacare.
George
Schwab, who lives in North Carolina, was notified in a letter from
Blue Cross Blue Shield on September 23 that his current plan doesn’t
meet Obamacare’s benefit requirements and would be canceled at the
end of the year. While Blue Cross did suggest a comparable plan, it
was $980 more than what he now pays.
“The
President told the American people numerous times that… ‘If you
like your coverage, you can keep it,’” Schwab told The Charlotte
Observer. “How can we keep it if it has been eliminated? How can we
keep it if the premium has been increased 430 percent in one year?”
Michael
Yount and his wife, a retired couple in North Carolina, buy their
individual insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield and pay about
$380 a month with an $11,000 deductible. But they were just informed
their new plan will be three times the price, costing them $1,124.50
a month, The Christian Science Monitor reported. The couple said they
plan to drop out of formal health insurance, pay the penalty, and
“self-insure.”
Cindy
Vinson in California “will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual
policy,” reports the San Jose Mercury News. She is an Obama voter
who was surprised by the personal impact of Obamacare. “Of course,
I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t
realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”
Higher
costs and dropped coverage are just two of the many reasons Obamacare
must be stopped. Members of Congress are getting distracted by
political maneuvering on Capitol Hill, but the most important thing
for them to be focused on is acting to save America from this
unpopular, unfair, and unworkable law.
Across
the country, people are being notified of price increases in the
hundreds or thousands of dollars. Have you gotten a notice? How much
is your insurance going up? We want to hear from you…
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