{"id":13213,"date":"2013-10-15T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=13213"},"modified":"2013-10-15T16:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:28:02","slug":"family-premium-increases-145-under-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2013\/10\/15\/family-premium-increases-145-under-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Premium Increases 145% Under Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you I have paid for my own medical insurance for over twenty years. It&#8217;s never been inexpensive but it has been affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I received my Blue Cross Blue Shield new premium letter. Unfortunately it is exactly what I expected a 145% increase over my 2013 premium. For my family this is unaffordable. <\/p>\n<p>Blue Cross Blue Shield Obamacare insurance premium letter: (click for larger view)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BlueCrossInsurancePremium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BlueCrossInsurancePremium-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"BlueCrossInsurancePremium\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BlueCrossInsurancePremium-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BlueCrossInsurancePremium-793x1024.jpg 793w, http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BlueCrossInsurancePremium.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Blue Cross Blue Shield and they are now the only provider in my part of Alabama. Prior to Obamacare I had at least three medical insurance choices. The gentleman said I could go to the exchange web site but I&#8217;d see the same costs.<\/p>\n<p>Please read my blog on Obamacare at: <a href=\"http:\/\/bluecollarpatriot.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/bluecollarpatriot.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My next post will be on solutions to the medical insurance and healthcare problems. Hint: Your rates would likely go down due to competition.<\/p>\n<p>Please call your Senator&#8217;s and Representative. Obamacare must be stopped before it is implemented. Thank you for your time.<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gruber<br \/>\nImage Directly, LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you I have paid for my own medical insurance for over twenty years. It&#8217;s never been inexpensive but it has been affordable. Last week I received my Blue Cross Blue Shield new premium letter. Unfortunately it is exactly what I expected a 145% increase over my 2013 premium. For my family this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13215,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions\/13215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}