Bending the cost curve? How about breaking the back of the consumer!
When the bozos who came to Washington to run our lives write 2500 page bills that take over our health care, you know what's going to happen.
The state [Connecticut] has given Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield the go ahead to raise premiums by as much as 47 percent for some members, and says health care reform is the reason why.
The new rates took effect Oct. 1, and include increases from 19 percent all the way to 47 percent depending on the individual, the Hartford Courant reported.
Sullivan responded to Blumenthal saying the new rates included "very rich benefits" mandated by federal law.
"There is not one person in the state of Connecticut who will see an increase in their current premiums based on what the department approved for Anthem and Aetna," Sullivan said in a release. "The rates that were filed and approved reflect the current cost to deliver care and the impact of more comprehensive benefit designs required under the federal healthcare reform law. If the attorney general wants to complain to someone, he should complain to Congress."
Anyone with an ounce of brains know that if you increase the features and benefits on anything, the costs go up. Anyone who has even bought a car, a computer or even a pair of shoes knows that. But Obama, Pelosi, Reed and all the talking heads in the media parroted the lie that you could insure more people and insure against more things while reducing the cost. There is a term for that used by Rush Limbaugh: "mind numbed robots."
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