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Wow...health care costs rise due to health care reform....who would've known?

WASHINGTON – AARP's endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law. In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next year because of rapidly rising medical costs. And AARP adds that it's changing copayments and deductibles to avoid a 40 percent tax on high-cost health plans that takes effect in 2018 under the law. Aerospace giant Boeing also has cited the tax in asking its workers to pay more. Shifting costs to employees lowers the value of a health care plan and acts like an escape hatch from the tax. "Most plan co-pays and deductibles have been modified," Jennifer Hodges, AARP's director of compensation and benefits, wrote employees in an Oct. 25 e-mail. "Plan value changes were necessary not only from a cost management standpoint but also to ensure that AARP's plans fall below the threshold for high-cost group plans under health care reform." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101104/ap_on_bi_ge/us_aarp_health_plan Why wouldn't the sheep listen? Is our only hope the Republicans refuse to fund and/or repeal?

Public Comments

1. The Department of Health and Human Services went before Congress and told them just that.
2. Hmmm... Last chance for them to pig up at the trough before the law is in effect. Think about it.....
3. my health insurance cost have gone up each and every freaking year for as long as I can remember, I find it funny how health insurance costs are now being blamed on health care reform what a freaking joke,
4. Finite minds. IDK... I don't get it either. It's like... now they're soo upset, because we made a huge mess?? As if!