Reply #15: It happens every year. What's the surprise? Has nothing to do with HCR.

[Hansel]

HCR hasn't been implemented yet so you can blame them for holding it off until 2014, but with or without the public option, this would have happened this year because the vast majority of HCR, and certainly the part you are referring to, hasn't been implemented.

Insurance companies raise rates every year, where have you been? Its the reason for HCR in the 1st place. If we get our asses out there and vote in progressive candidates maybe by the time 2014 rolls around there will be a public option. But complaining about something that hasn't taken place yet as the reason insurance companies are raising rates isn't going to get you there.