I just got a post card from CenturyLink, (Formerly Qwest) no paper packet just go to the web site and sign up for 2012 health Ins open enrollment. I had to jump a few hoops as it didn't like my old password. Answered the reset questions and got logged on. Well after I did all that I got the shock that my monthly premium went up 230% next year for our PPO plan. Just the two of us... me a retiree and one dependent. Both non Medicare. Now I ask you is this criminal or what. I was thinking it would go to about $300 as it went up $55 last year. About $50 a year. Instead of going up to about $300 it went to almost $600.
Remember when last year some private Ins. increased 80% and the public when nuts and many of them cut back on that. Look at us 230% increase in one year. This is just so wrong. I turn 65 in July. But even then it wont be that much lower payments with a non medicare dependent.
Now the rant...
And the majority in this country say they hate the the Affordable Care Act. What they don't want health Insurance? I just don't understand why people constantly vote against their best interests. I hope the still working in non union jobs when they get their premium sign-up notices this month they will have a change of heart. It seems the ones who don't even have Ins. are the ones who don't want it the most. We are the only mainstream country in the world who doesn't have a single payer health care system. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US? We should not be dependent on employers for our health insurance. What could they do to create jobs if they didn't have to do the health care thing. Sure it was one of those after the BIG war ideas to hire employees by providing benefits. It worked back then... but NOW not so sure. The rest of the world does not use this plan.
We are the 99% and we are getting screwed big time... but me thinks the Tea Party are getting screwed even more as they fell for the corporate... get in line stupid mantra... Single payer health care is evil, tax cuts for the rich are swell...They will create jobs don't Ya know. Just don't raise their taxes, less government, less regulation of wall street and the banks. It seems like their call is "I don't have anything... so you can't have it either."
When I retired, another who was also retiring repeated over and over that THEY want to take away my money... All I could say was you are not rich (you don't have REAL money) and the only ones who want to screw you are the TRUE RICH. That was back in 2003... Now the term is the 1%. She didn't get it and never will, me thinks. I guess a true Tea Party member even before the Koch brothers invented the term. Stupid is as Stupid does.
As you can tell I'm not a happy camper and nor should you...
We will grow to learn how to overcome the oppressive factions that are now in control of our lives. Stay tuned as things are a changing.... Things CAN change if YOU get involved. It only takes one person behind one more person to make a wave of people to say NO MORE. One person, with one sign, on one street corner, can make a difference... and when another joins in it builds to create a wave.
5:47 PM PT: Me thinks it's early November and the season for Open Enrollment for Health Insurance plan options. I may have been one of the first rants on this issue but surely not the last. People might have received their enrollment packets and are avoiding opening them. Denial is a human trait, but they will and be shocked to be sure when they break open that big envelope. What you think the premiums are going down.
Some day soon single payer will look good to these non believers when the can't afford it anymore.