re: #190 Tigger2005

I have a question. My sister and her husband have just seen their health care premium with bc/bs increase dramatically to over $1000 a month. They live in Missouri and are in mid 50’s. He is currently not working and she only makes about 13,000 a year. I am not sure of their circumstances before but they had been paying about $40 a month. What I am trying to determine is, does this increase have anything to do with Obamacare? Right now she and others on Facebook are blaming it all on Obamacare and it’s difficult to find any objective information. I would have to admit if Obamacare had anything to do with it there really are serious problems with the law. Would appreciate any input.

At $13k a year an Obamacare policy would be heavily subsidized to almost nothing. Obamacare raised the requirements for insurance coverage, so if her work provided the policy it would probably be a real insurance policy that meets requirements now instead of one of those policies that had massive deductibles and restrictions, and the employer passed the cost on to the employee. I can’t speak to Missouri’s implementation of the law.