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Is anyone as upset as I, re: raising cost of medical insurance?

I was told today that it will go up over $300 in 2010. Bye,bye, Aetna.

Public Comments

1. You're not alone!!!! It'll be adios to many insurance companies before long.
2. It costs me $800.00 a month for both my husband and I. Yes very upset. My husband isn't offered Ins. where he works. And that's after they pay half of mine.
3. What this Government is doing is the best example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater I can think of.
4. not the democrats
5. I am livid, my insurance and medicare rates are going over the moon and next year I will have co-pays.I have 5 dr's may the best one win because if they haven't cured me now,may as well cremate me now!
6. No. I would be shocked if those cost stay unchanged and really shocked if they went down. We have known this was gonna happen for a long time. It is it the news all the time and has been for years.
7. Yeah, our health insurance and prescription insurance is going up. And our social security is staying the same. No cost of living raise this year.
8. You ,me and millions of others here in the USA.
9. E D I T E D Medicare for 2010 remains the same as 2008 ($96.40) and 2009 ($96.40). No increase for 2010 ($96.40). For confirmation of those numbers, see link below: http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_092409.html Not sure yet about 2011. My suspicion for 2011 is that IF there is no Social Security COLA Benefit increase, then there most likely will not be a Medicare Premium increase either. I sense that the politicians feel that no COLA but a premium increase would just not be a good combination. It just wouldn't ring right with the citizens. I think that's why we can pretty much NOT expect an increase in medicare premiums in 2011 if we don't also get a COLA to help offset it. Hopefully, after 2011, the economy will have turned around, and 2012 will be a year that will have everyone smiling. If so, we can expect a COLA, but also an increase in medicare premiums -- maybe a bigger one that usual. This response will be of more interest to people on Social Security and Medicare. Those who are younger and still working for a living, this will most likely not mean much -- ha ha -- not 'till later anyway. Life is complex. Anyway, if I were in your shoes, I would look for other options than Aetna. The Aetna option is one I have too, and I'm staying clear of it. This year, I again found Kaiser Permanente (an HMO) to be the best deal for my situation. For a mere $39 per month (down $5 from last year) I get coverage for everything that Medicare doesn't cover except for dental (which is costing me $20 per month). The $20 per month is up $5 from last year with CIGMA Dental HMO. Vision, I just pay out of my pocket. Anyway, I hope your lucky enough to find an option available to you that won't put you in the poor house. If you've never dealt with HMOs, you may want to consider them this year. I've been with one (Kaiser Permanente) for 4 years now, and have no complaints. I seldom am ill, but when I call in, I'm treated fairly. If it's a minor thing that can wait, they offer me any appointment slot they have open. If it is serious, or might be serious, they ask me to come in right away. I remember one occasion when I was in the kitchen at home peeling potatoes with a potato peeler -- a brand new and very shap one. The peeler went off the potato and caught the end of my middle finger. It cut a large slice of flesh, but I fortunately stopped the motion of the peeler just short of the flesh being cut completely off the end of my finder. The slice was just hanging there by what seemed like a paper thin piece of skin, and thick dark red blood was oozing from the wound. I delicately flipped the flesh back over the wound and pressed on it hoping it would somehow just miraculously glue itself back together and the wound would just go away. Ha ha. It didn't go away. It wasn't going to be that easy, but it went pretty well. I bandaged the wound as best I could (with a paper towel -- would you believe). I also added adheisive tape to the towel to hold it in place. Wetting it with cold water from the kitchen faucet seem to help sooth the pain. It was 9 p.m. so I knew the health plan offices were closed. I decided to play it by ear for a while by just keeping the area cool and moist, and also keeping pressure applied with hope that everything would stick together and stay in place. After a while I noticed that the blood stopped oozing, and I decided to chance taking a nap until morning. It worked out fine, but the slice of flesh had turned blue. I called the HMO, described my situation to the nurse, and she told me to come in right away because they needed to look at it asap to determine what would need to be done. It turned out that it did not need sewing back in place (I guess it stuck like I had hoped) but they got a nurse to apply some solution to it and ask me to press on the wound very hard to squeeze the flesh as flat as possible. She explained that if I didn't, it would heal with a lump on the end of my finger. Incredibly, after a week, my finger tip was like new. I'm happy to have a system that heals well, but I must confess that I definitey have a new respect for potato peelers. I'm now very careful with those things. Hope your health needs are no more serious than mine, and that the options available to you include some HMOs. They can save you quite a few bucks, and the service (based on my experience anyway) is fine. You don't have anything to worry about. And I've been dependent on them for 4 years now, so I think I would know by now is anything wasn't right with HMOs. After the economy turns around and you are making mega bucks again, you can always return to the higher priced medical plans. But in the meantime, this could be of help to you. I know it has been for me as a retiree.
10. Consider the alternative, which is paying actual medical bills. Me: 18 days in the hospital. Cost: $62,000 so far, and I have not been billed for everything. To compare this with something, this cost more than two years of undergrad education at UCLA would today, including room, board, tuition, and fees. I asked the first responders, the later responders, and the trauma room team to administer euthanasia. It would have been much less expensive.
11. as long as the world collapses after i die, i dont really care. bye bye world
12. Yes indeed along with property tax, real estate tax, grocery tax, etc.
13. Oh, Obama is going to fix that! Just like he fixed the banks and GM!