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To: neolib who wrote (307554)	8/9/2016 9:22:56 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541990

I should note several additional companies on that chart baled from the AZ market (Blue Cross and Healthnet, Humana, United Health, and Health Choice). But those ON exchange requested increases are pretty shocking. Hillary's answer will be "But the subsidies..." Well, dumb bunny, that only helps people making low enough incomes. People just above the cut offs will be seriously impacted by those 120% increases. It will do a good job of wiping out savings, discretionary spending, and for many of them, even essential expenses will have to be curtailed. In my case, an income of about 60K will have now have around $14K/year for a Bronze plan, up from around $4K/y pre ACA. So $10K/yr out of my budget is a pretty gaping hole. Hillary doesn't seem to understand this, because she can get $650K for an hours talk at GS...

To: neolib who wrote (307554)	8/9/2016 9:37:56 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541990

On Medicare now, I'm not on Obamacare anymore. I recently had an experience that informed me as to why costs just keep skyrocketing. My GP felt I should go to a cardiologist, since I'm 65, and have myself checked out. I put it off, since I have no heart complaints, but she kept pestering me so I finally went. The cardiologist did an EKG. He said he saw something in it that merited further testing. I consented. They ran $8000 worth of tests and imaging on me. It took a couple of hours. They found nothing wrong. My co-pay with Medicare Advantage was $300. Medicare has paid about $1300. I don't know if they are going to come after me for more, or just keep hitting Medicare. I don't think I'm going to pay if they come after me. I feel that they just tested me to amortize their imaging equipment.