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7. Because it's the truth, and open enrollment is coming up?
Tue Oct 25, 2016, 05:31 PM
Oct 2016

By the way, this premium hike is for the approximately 3% of the population that is on the exchanges. For families and individuals who earn less than 400% of the federal poverty line, there will be subsidies available to cover some or all of the increase. The increase is due to the insurance companies who insisted on remaining as the gatekeepers for healthcare coverage in our country.

Part of the price insurance companies supposedly agreed to pay for staying in the loop was to cover people who weren't on Medicaid, Medicare or employer-provided insurance. Why don't the insurance companies suck it up and cover this as their part of making sure Americans have access to health care? Or, if that's too much of an imposition on the free market, why didn't Congress do anything in the last six years to soften the blow for citizens?

Let's make sure we're holding those responsible responsible.

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