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Old 07-18-2013, 06:44 PM
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Obamacare Increases Health Insurance Premiums

The above link explains the following 12 factors that will contribute to higher healthcare premiums.

1. Mandated Benefits

2. No Cost-Sharing for Previntitive Services

3. Limits On Cost-Sharing (on Covered Items) and Limits on Deductibles

4. Minimized Youth Discount

5. Elimination of the Good Health Discount

6. No Annual or Lifetime Limits on Health Benefits and Mandated Coverage of Children Under 26

7. No Pre-Existing Conditions Exclusion and Guarantee Issue

8. Cost-Shifting Because of Low Medicare Reimbursement Rates

9. Taxes on Insurers, Pharmaceutical Companies, and Medical Device Makers

10. Dificulty of Inforcing the Mandate

11. Adverse Selection

12. Increased Demand for Health Care


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AMAZING!!! The Heritage Foundation opposes the AHCA! That is shocking, almost as shocking as the fact that MSNBC endorses it. Please spare me the wing-nut propaganda.
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