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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (758255)	12/17/2013 2:00:11 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578106

>> I know enough already. Strangely, you may end up being one of the "better-offs" -- after all, you have insurance (if you get your card...) A very large number of people have moved from insured to uninsured in the last 2.5 months through absolutely no fault of their own. It is terrifying to me; I remember times when we were a young couple with kids when we could not pay our mortgage but would damned well pay for our health insurance, and I would have been totally fearful of not having coverage. Now, all these people who have done everything right being cut off at the knees. Just got this from my B-I-L today Just got the hard numbers to compare my current healthcare with ?Obamacare. My company funded health insurance premium is about $3000/yr with a $500 family deductible. If I had to sign up for Obamacare I would have to pay about $8700 (after subsidies on the Silver plan) with $6000 family deductible. Premiums up 287%, deductible up 1200%!!! My current health plan is much better than the govt.-offered Silver plan. This would be completely unaffordable for us. We would just have to go without insurance if this is the cost we would have to pay. == Apparently, he's hearing his company may be cutting back on insurance next year. They're worried.