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Uh-oh - Walmart raising cost of healthcare. (sm)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012
Healthcare costs will go up between 8% and 36%. Obamacare will save us money - sure it will. Gullible people - who voted for this liar? Not me.
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Walmart is awful. - RC
[ In Reply To ..]I'm surprised they even offer a healthcare plan.
I believe they are just one in a long line. - Obamacare is awful. Business preparing.
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babybushcare saw a 78% increase in health care premiums - textexpander
[ In Reply To ..]Since 2001, premiums for family health coverage have increased 78 percent, according to a 2007 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Premiums averaged $12,106, of which workers paid $3,281, according to the report.
How do you like them apples?
Yes, Walmart says costs were rising for years and their - changes are NOT BECAUSE OF THE ACA. SM
[ In Reply To ..]"Rossiter, a Wal-Mart spokesman, said the decision to deny coverage to new part-time employees resulted from the company’s revamping of its health care offerings in light of rising costs.
“Over the last few years, we’ve all seen our health care rates increase and it’s probably not a surprise that this year will be no different,” Mr. Rossiter said. “We made the difficult decision to raise rates that will affect our associates’ medical costs. The decisions made were not easy, but they strike a balance between managing costs and providing quality care and coverage.”
The company said the changes were not a result of the new federal health care law.
These moves are also occurring in a postrecession period when Wal-Mart has been struggling to regain its footing after months of disappointing or flat sales. And with unemployment still hovering around 9 percent, employers may feel less compelled to offer expansive benefits to people desperate for work."
The rest of a comprehensive and responsible article at the link below. Walmart tried an experiment in offering healthcare benefits to employees who would not have been covered by other employers. Sales have flattened, though, and they decided it was costing them too much money.
Health care premiums only increased by 4% this year - lots less than Bushs 10+%
[ In Reply To ..]Health insurance is now covering alot of preventive care and kids can stay on family policies until they are 26 now. A wonderful thing for my friend and her diabetic son. I am looking forward to the full implementation.
Me too. Just hope nothing happens for the next - year. We'd be paying off not just the
[ In Reply To ..]deductible but all the unpaid coinsurance and more than "usual-and-customary" costs for years, assuming I could still work after a major illness. It's really just catastrophic insurance we were changed to at Nuance, no alternatives offered.
Last January I had the annual physical Obamacare requires them to cover 100% in return for my expensive premium payments, but I haven't seen a doctor since. No coverage. Not a dime.
My husbands insurance just got raised 29% - now we will pay
[ In Reply To ..]$130 per week for the premium and a $15,000 deductible. That is a total of $21,760, or 1/3 of his income. Can anyone afford to pay 1/3 of their income to just health insurance?
I don't think so. Like another poster said (sm) - LM
[ In Reply To ..]in another thread, this is how he gets everyone into the universal HC. Who can afford this. Not anyone I know.
Silly stuff. It's the FREE MARKET that's raising rates. - So far, the government is mostly out of it. nm
[ In Reply To ..]You know, you can gnash all you want, the fact is when you have government guaranteed insurance, through a private company or directly from a state exchange-managed government policy, you'll NEVER be willing go back to this mess. Please remember these posts then and thank those of us who brought it to you.
Government has a lot to do with it. People in (sm) - nmq
[ In Reply To ..]business have to look out for themselves. They know what's coming and are preparing so that they can still be in business for a few years to come. Otherwise, Obamacare will destroy them - like Obama is destroying the country.
LOL! You bet they need to look out for themselves - Tough to be a multi-millionaire
[ In Reply To ..]The rich like the Papa John's guy can't afford health care for his employees:
These must be hard times for John. Poor guy: John Schnatter is the founder, as well as chairman and CO-CEO of PaPa Johns International Inc., with a net worth of $240 million. John Schnatter has accumulated his net worth through his franchises in over 3400 restaurants around the world. In 2011, John was listed at number 17 on Forbes list as one of the wealthiest.
His house is 40,000 square feet and it resembles a castle. One interesting feature on this 16-acre estate is the 22-car underground garage, complete with an office for valet parking, a car wash and even a motorized turn table to move limousines. The home also has a state-of-the-art exercise suite and a huge 6,000 square foot carriage house.
No wonder Romney needs a car elevator--has too keep up with the other millionaire/billionaires.
My, my. The green-eyed monster just raised its head again. no message - Truthhurts
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Is he in a higher risk group because of age/risk factors? - nm
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Agreed. Walmart will use any excuse to screw over their workers. - grits
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The reason healthcare costs are going up - Me
[ In Reply To ..]His agenda is to cause current healthcare prices to skyrocket so that people will start moving over to his Government one world order Single payor Obamacare health plan. Once that goes into effect after January 1st, we will all be doomed to either pay higher healthcare costs on our current healthcare (as they go up and up) or pay for Obamacare for the rest of your life, or pay the penalties for NOT getting Obamacare. The true evil will be unleashed during the next 4 years. this is just the beginning.
I know. Make it too expensive for people to afford - (sm) - AbbyCadabby
[ In Reply To ..]That was the plan all along. Government control of our health care of lack thereof.
Obamacare isn't kicking in today. These are insurance - companies raising rates. nm
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Part of the plan. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Necessarily raise rates to compensate for Obamacare taxes, then go out of business when it can't be sustained. THEN, everyone will switch to Obamacare by default. That's been his plan all along.
NO, no, no. It's not all a strange, sinister mystery. - Go read about it. Understanding feels GOOD. nm
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It's more fun to believe silly conspiracy theories. - booboo (nm)
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