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Kber

(5,043 posts)
1. Not a horror story, but real life inconvenience
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 11:40 AM
Feb 2014

Blue Cross Blue Shield canceled by husband's business's policy and the suggested replacement is much more expensive.

Which required him to shop around for another company.

Which took time and effort (probably up to 8 hours of his time comparing plan options).

In the end he found a comparable plan for about the same cost, so no harm no foul. I pointed out that he switched to BCBS 4 years ago in first place when Aetna pulled a similar stunt and tried to raise his premiums by 40%, so attributing this to ObamaCare is not an open and shut case, IMO.

You can put one more small business owner down in favor of single payer, but I don't think really small businesses like my husband's are really the demographic the GOP is targeting, no matter what they say.

(It's even too small to be affected negatively by the "death tax". )

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