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Wally Hofmann's avatar

In the summer of 2013, I was in excellent shape at 57 years of age, and I received a notice from my healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Ventura, that my premium was increasing from $224.55 in 2013 to $496.55 in 2014, with no changes made to my healthcare coverage, other than HIGHER out-of-pocket copays.

By 2023, my “private” healthcare costs increased to more than $1500/month.

America: affordable healthcare delivered anything but affordable healthcare. My primary care provider has been a revolving door of well-meaning strangers. And, we all know what it’s like to wait for a delayed appointment for necessary medical procedures.

Lou, you’re absolutely right. The devil isn’t the healthcare industry — it’s government meddling.

Obamacare has been one giant bummer.

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Eric Gordon's avatar

Up until 2010-2011 I had been paying into my private healthcare insurance, Fortis, since 1980. My reward for doing this was that I had not just good but great insurance that covered me and my family for every conceivable thing (including conception). All for about $300/mth.

Then came Obamacare which essentially forced my insurer to flee the state and I lost 30+ years of disciplined premium payments every month even though I didn’t need it because…it was the responsible thing to do. I got to see the doctors I wanted when I wanted and I just flashed my Fortis card at any medical facility and was given immediate attention…

With Obamacare My family and I were forced into buying crap insurance (Anthem Blue Cross) for 3-5x the monthly premium and we had to scramble every year now to see what changed and re-apply like a test for admission to see what subsidies we qualified for.

Of course all my employees had to find their own insurance because it was too expensive to have the company pay for it. I was able to get most of them something called Healthnet for a little while but then the government removed the profit motive for our broker and then Healthnet fled the market as well, at least for everyone who was not a government employee at the university…those guys got a special waiver …the era of life by government edict and competition for exemptions and special treatment waivers had begun

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