'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
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#3>Allen is herself a casualty. While she used to pay $487.50 a month, her new healthcare plan, with reduced coverage, has monthly premiums of $1,967.50.
Brutal.
Meanwhile the White House calls it all "fake news".
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#5I was paying around $1200/month last year (a little under that with subsidy).
This year I'm paying $2100/month for a family of five, on a roughly equivalent plan. Except, none of the options in my state allow me to visit the PCP I switched to this year (since none of the plans last year covered my PCP from the year before).
So I guess I'm on a primary care physician merry go round :D
I am at least able to have my main specialty doctor and the drug I take to keep me in remission from Crohn's disease, and my kids' pediatrician is covered.
But I can't imagine what people have to sacrifice to keep any kind of coverage (with high deductible and horrible coinsurance and prescription drug coverage) for their families if they don't have a decent income :(
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#6I read healthcare now amounts to buying a new car every year. (Except, of course, nothing new in your driveway, nothing to resell, etc.)
Re: 'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
#7>Allen is herself a casualty. While she used to pay $487.50 a month, her new healthcare plan, with reduced coverage, has monthly premiums of $1,967.50. Brutal. Meanwhile the White House calls it all "fake news".
It's always cost ~$2k a month, the only difference is the previous administration thought everyone else should be "temporarily" paying for her plan.
I feel like we need a perpetual PSA here that moving money from person A to person B obviously doesn't make anything cheaper.
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#9I was paying around $1200/month last year (a little under that with subsidy). This year I'm paying $2100/month for a family of five, on a roughly equivalent plan. Except, none of the options in my state allow me to visit the PCP I switched to this year (since none of the plans last year covered my PCP from the year before). So I guess I'm on a primary care physician merry go round :D I am at least able to have my mai…
Excuse me, but how in the world were you able to afford 1200/month, you know that's like cheap rent right?
Re: 'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs
#10I was paying around $1200/month last year (a little under that with subsidy). This year I'm paying $2100/month for a family of five, on a roughly equivalent plan. Except, none of the options in my state allow me to visit the PCP I switched to this year (since none of the plans last year covered my PCP from the year before). So I guess I'm on a primary care physician merry go round :D I am at least able to have my mai…
You go without coverage of course. Unfortunately.
(It's getting late, Jeff. I'm heading to bed myself.)