ObamaCare Rates ‘Three Times Higher’ for Some Colorado Communities
Remember when President Obama promised that his health care plan would cut health care costs for families by up to $2,500 per year?
Not only is that promise not even close to being true, but health care costs for millions of families are actually skyrocketing because of ObamaCare!
Take a look at the latest ObamaCare failure. Health Policy Solutions reports that some Colorado communities are being forced to pay as much as three times as much for their insurance, and that the ObamaCare exchanges haven’t done anything to alleviate costs.
Even the region’s Democrat Congressman, Jared Polis, is now asking the White House for a waiver from the individual mandate, so his constituents won’t have to face a penalty if they avoid ObamaCare’s sky-high premiums.
If only the White House would spend time listening to the concerns of House Republicans (and now some House Democrats)…
From Health Policy Solutions:
Health coverage guides working to enroll Summit County residents in new health plans through Colorado’s health exchange have been deeply disappointed. They have not enrolled a single new client since Colorado’s health exchange launched on Oct. 1.
“People take one look at the rates and they walk out the door,” said Tamara Drangstveit, executive director of the Family and Intercultural Resource Center, the group that is leading efforts in Summit County to enroll people in new plans that start on Jan. 1 through Colorado’s health exchange.
“This is hard for me to say. We had really hoped that (the marketplace) would bring down rates. Sadly, that’s not what we’re seeing. People just can’t afford it. Their incomes are already squeezed too tight,” Drangstveit said.
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Health coverage guides have worked with some clients for up to 90 minutes and walked them through the entire enrollment process only to have them suffer sticker shock and bail when it came time to pick a plan.
“They literally are walking out the door,” Drangstveit said.
Asked how many have purchased plans so far, she said: “Nobody. Zero.”
Drangstveit said it has taken some time to work out glitches with the Connect for Health Colorado online system, but then it became apparent that computer problems weren’t the primary challenge in this mountain county about 70 miles west of Denver.
“It took us a while to get the system functional, but these are the kind of problems you expect with a rollout. The real problem is that it’s just too expensive,” she said.