{"id":6337,"date":"2016-11-01T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2016-11-01T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:54:43","slug":"rising-aca-rates-ctd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/01\/rising-aca-rates-ctd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising ACA Rates, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader comments on the ongoing ACA<\/strong><\/em> problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While I’m not among those that want to throw the ACA out completely, I still believe the health care _insurance_ system is completely broken.<\/p>\n

All these $100\/month people?! In what imaginary place is that? The first year (last year) I was on non-employer sponsored coverage, it was about $800\/month. This year, it was over $1000\/month. Next year, it will be $16000\/month. That’s a 25% increase over last year to this year and a 60% increase from this year to next. And this is Minnesota.<\/p>\n

And this is for a plan that has not paid any money yet, despite surgery and many thousands of dollars in bills, because the deductible is so high. If next year goes like this year, I will pay $20,000 for the privilege of being insured, and the only “benefit” I will get is “discounted” bills from the doctors but bills I have to pay nonetheless. At this rate, I will go broke before I can qualify for Medicare. Medicare, which if I can make it that long, may be the only chance I have of saving my financial health.<\/p>\n

I’ve read that for most people in the America these days that life is a one strike and you’re out game — i.e. one health care disaster and you’re homeless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s not ACA<\/strong><\/em> that’s really broken, but rather a question of why rates continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader comments on the ongoing ACA problems: While I’m not among those that want to throw the ACA out completely, I still believe the health care _insurance_ system is completely broken. All these $100\/month people?! In what imaginary place is that? The first year (last year) I was on \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}