I have been with Blue Cross the last 6 years. The highest increase year to year has been 5%. Just got the new rates for next year.................. 17% increase. And they even listed Obamacare as one of the reasons for the large increase. I did not hit a new age group, nothing changed. Didn't use my insurance at all the last three years.
I would like to know how forcing an insurance policy to have minimum specs like pre-natal care (which my wife and I do not need), or no co-pays on certain things, take on any pre-existing conditions, etc. would NOT raise the cost of the insurance. Maybe I don't understand how it works. But when you add on the extras and require everybody regardless of health to be covered, the price of the policy has to go up.
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