Health care victory

[FlashLackey]

Sounds fishy to me. It will be interesting to hear if other FK members have the same experience. Could your health care provider be taking the opportunity to practice a bit of gouging?

I don't think it takes Alan Greenspan to understand that if you require insurance companies to cover things that they previously did not, they will raise rates to cover the additional cost.

It's only going to get worse when the government controlled margin kicks in.

Same thing happened to me a couple of months ago.
Neither my case nor FL's has anything to do with what's in the healthcare bill.
Nothing in the bill is affecting the insurance companies yet and all of the major provisions don't go into affect for years.

A slew of provisions that are substantial to insurance companies do go into effect this year.

Even if they didn't, rate increases now could have everything to do with provisions that kick in later. Their current model isn't designed to support the additional expenses that this legislation requires. They have to have the funds available to cover policy holders. If the expenses for those policy holders goes up, they need to have increased the pool of funds to draw from.

This just highlights why we needed healthcare reform in the first place.
Healthcare costs have been increasing 10% every year, and if FL thought he could keep avoiding that by putting his head in the sand then I guess it's his wake-up call.

Nothing in the health care reform prevents insurance companies from raising costs. In fact, the major changes encourage insurance companies to raise rates more.

I would be happy to have 10% increases back over the Obamacare 50% hike I just received.

I have not seen any raises in my healthcare costs as of yet beyond the normal inflation of a few dollars a week

Is your health care paid for by an employer?