Open enrollment time= OUCH!!

Monthly rate for me + family went from $171.04 to...drumroll please.....$1408.00

I seriously feel sick to my stomach

$171 was a bargain.....

Tell the kids to rub Tussin on it.

but I thought everyone was going to like Obamacare!

(I'll throw the first flounder, why not? )

That's fairly crazy. Why the big jump? Just new policies?

Maybe this is the government's way of trying to limit population growth!

nocones wrote: That's fairly crazy. Why the big jump? Just new policies?

? Was given the packet told to bring it in signed tomorrow. Got home and the wife and I both about had heart attacks. Nothing was said about switching policy's, but it appears we are switching from cigna to bcbs.

ask around at private insurance agencies- a few people here at work are buying their own insurance because it's better and cheaper than the stuff at work..

Yeah, no way in hell can we pay that. We had our own insurance prior to me working here. Worst case we go in her insurance from work. Around $500 per month. But that means she isn't going to be able to go part time like she hoped to. And it's still a big chunk out of the budget that we haven't been used to paying. I figured the $171 wouldn't last but wasn't expecting this.

nicksta43 wrote: Monthly rate for me + family went from $171.04 to...drumroll please.....$1408.00

WHAT?

Yea yea, healthcare is subsidized up here, but that would LITERALLY BE half my monthly take home.

WHAT
THE
berkeley
?

HiTempguy wrote:

nicksta43 wrote: Monthly rate for me + family went from $171.04 to...drumroll please.....$1408.00

WHAT? Yea yea, healthcare is subsidized up here, but that would LITERALLY BE half my monthly take home. WHAT THE berkeley ?

At the risk from floundering it from the "left"..this is what happens when a nation mandates universal care, but privatizes it instead of just digging down and paying for it.

Why some people in the US still scream "SOCIALIZUM!!" when the "compromise" on the ACA ended up being a multi-million dollar gift to the private insurance industry is a mystery to me.

And now I'm out before the lock.

Piss off, we're full.

Signed: Canada.

The best healthcare and the best healthcare system are two entirely different things.

i'll just leave this here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol5QH0Bi1JU&feature=player_embedded

BCBS PPO? They've raised their rates tremendously on that coverage in many regions, to drive people away from it to their various managed care policies, like POS, HMO and the like.

BCBS, it isn't what it used to be. Not that it ever actually was.

In reply to friedgreencorrado:

Unfortunately 1/2 monthly take-home isn't unheard of. :(

aircooled wrote: The best healthcare and the best healthcare system are two entirely different things.

And you have neither.

friedgreencorrado wrote: At the risk from floundering it from the "left"..this is what happens when a nation mandates universal care, but privatizes it instead of just digging down and *paying* for it. Why some people in the US still scream "SOCIALIZUM!!" when the "compromise" on the ACA ended up being a multi-million dollar gift to the private insurance industry is a mystery to me.

Which is why I've been screaming that Obamacare is absolutely, without question, the WORST POSSIBLE "SOLUTION" to the problem, ever since it was first floated on the national level.

Seriously, remember middle school social studies? Remember "supply and demand"? WHAT HAPPENS TO DEMAND WHEN YOU MAKE IT A LEGAL COMPULSION TO BUY A PARTICULAR PRODUCT?

I mean, seriously, DUH .

Yikes, that's unbelievable.

Whatever you do - don't post that it is time for a revolution!

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EDIT: Linky fixed

My company was purchased last year and they switched us to their bcbs, then back again to uhc beginning this year. Both times they had a meeting at all of the offices to roll out the changes and detail differences in cost, coverages, etc. it seems shady as heck that they just passed out the packet and said to sign it and bring back tomorrow with no explanation of what changes are inside, like they were hoping that nobody would notice?

For a private consulting company that has BCBS, my company has weathered the new regs pretty well. Deductable doubled (to $1k) and premiums went up a bit, but its manageble.

I'm sorry you're facing that jump, but as an employer, I have to seriously question how you ever had family coverage for $171 a month. Your new rate is in line with what we've been paying in premiums for our employees' family coverage for several years now, and the cost has grown pretty steadily at around 10% per year for the last 10+ years. (Of course, do the math and you see that we're now paying far more for our company healthcare plan than we were a decade ago. No, healthcare's not broken... and srsly, sarcasm aside, it's been broken a long, long time.)

Margie

I think some people are forgetting there are other factors here than just OBAMACAREZ.

Increasingly, companies are dropping subsidized spousal/child coverage. Only the employee is covered and the premiums for any additional family members must be paid for 100%. It allows employers to lower their overall healthcare cost while still offering benefits, or at least the give the illusion of offering benefits. I'll bet that is what happened in the OP's situation.

Both my employer and my wife's' employer have gone to this in the past 3 years. To keep our HC costs under $1500 per month we had to each take our employers plan. Now we don't go to the same doctor, dentist, or pharmacy. It's a real PITberkleyingA. It also sucks pretty bad when you both get sick and one person can get to the doctor right away, get a prescription, and feel better in a few days while the other can't get seen for 3 days and then has to get approvals and wait it out for another week before anything gets done.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: I'm sorry you're facing that jump, but as an employer, I have to seriously question how you ever had family coverage for $171 a month. Your new rate is in line with what we've been paying in premiums for our employees' family coverage for several years now, and the cost has grown pretty steadily at around 10% per year for the last 10+ years. (Of course, do the math and you see that we're now paying far more for our company healthcare plan than we were a decade ago. No, healthcare's not broken... and srsly, sarcasm aside, it's been broken a long, long time.) Margie

The company I worked for 3 years ago covered 90% of premiums for employees, spouses, and dependents. Our BCBS PPO (which was awesome!) cost us $174.xx a month.