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Yep, the Website Malfunctioning Was the Good News for ObamaCare

 

 

Hattip to Erika Johnsen at Hot Air.  Even the New York Times is beginning to notice the skyhigh deductibles and co-pays of ObamaCare:

 

In El Paso, Tex., for example, for a husband and wife both age 35, one of the cheapest plans on the federal exchange, offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has a premium less than $300 a month, but the annual deductible is more than $12,000. For a 45-year-old couple seeking insurance on the federal exchange in Saginaw, Mich., a policy with a premium of $515 a month has a deductible of $10,000.       

In Santa Cruz, Calif., where the exchange is run by the state, Robert Aaron, a self-employed 56-year-old engineer, said he was looking for a low-cost plan. The best one he could find had a premium of $488 a month. But the annual deductible was $5,000, and that, he said, “sounds really high.”       

By contrast, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average deductible in employer-sponsored health plans is $1,135.       

“Deductibles for many plans in the insurance exchanges are pretty high,” said Stan Dorn, a health policy expert at the Urban Institute. “These plans are more generous than what’s prevalent in the current individual insurance market, but significantly less generous than most employer-sponsored insurance.”       

Caroline F. Pearson, a vice president of Avalere Health, a consulting company that has analyzed hundreds of plans, said: “The premiums are lower than expected, but consumers on the exchange will often face high deductibles and high co-payments for medical services and prescription drugs before they reach the cap on out-of-pocket costs,” $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family.

Go here to read the rest.  When even the New York Times is focusing in on what a White Elephant ObamaCare is with skyhigh deductibles and co-pays, ObamaCare, and Obama, are in deep trouble.

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James
James
Tuesday, December 10, AD 2013 7:50pm

If you want to skyrocket the price and gut the level of service in anything, just make it Socialist! The Sociocrat party has struck again.

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