Reply #95: It was also about transferring costs to the middle class

[GinaMaria]

How did open enrollment look for those of you with employer benefits?

Are you paying a larger chunk of the premium costs? With a much higher deductible? With higher co-pays? And lower reimbursement %? = more cost to you. We are looking at a tremendous amount out of pocket over the next year. My husband and I will likely deplete what we have in savings and still not be able to pay for health care. We are trying to figure out how to reduce his medications so that we can lower our costs. It will negatively impact his health but we don't have the same insurance we had before the dems "fixed" the system. It either negatively impacts his health or we go bankrupt and live in a cardboard box.

Expect about 50% of employers over the next 3-5 years to drop healthcare coverage for employees. The individual policies are where the profit is for Insurance Companies and this deform incentivized just that. Oh and when our employers drop healthcare coverage, don't expect more money in your paycheck. IOW, your total compensation has been reduced. Good luck affording health care with the same amount you take home now. This crap just made a lot of us poorer. By the middle of 2011, my family will no longer be middle class. Plus my tax dollars help pay subsidies that go right back to this corrupt system.

We were better off before anyone tried to make it better. Making healthcare accessible without making it affordable is the biggest failure of the ACA (Affordable care act my a$$)

I cannot and will not vote for anyone who supported this garbage. They took the pills right out of my husband's mouth. Voting these worthless employees out of office will not hurt them any where near the way they have hurt us, but it's all we've got.