Nemont
Well-known member
Nemont- I literally feel your pain with the cost of healthcare with high deductibles. I have a question for you and feel you are best qualified to answer it. Is the cost of health insurance due to the ACA or the cost of healthcare? If I remember right, there is a cap that was put on how much an insurance company can make in commission that scared many insurance companies but now I see a huge increase in premiums. It seems as though insuring more people would reduce risk and not increase risk (at least in other forms of insurance). Do you know why the premiums have increased so quickly and would this trend have still hit without the ACA?
Matt,
I know it is easy to hate insurance companies but they are bleeding money. Just getting an insurance card into people's hands doesn't bend the curve. It was a perfect storm sort: pent up demand and attracting a pool of sicker people then was rated for, The use of Special enrollment periods to abuse the system and our stellar congress refusing to keep it's word and funding the risk corridors that are in the law. You add to the rapidly increasing cost of Prescription drugs and hospital charges and that translate to what we are seeing. It is unsustainable.
Nemont