We asked for it; We got it.

[Don]

Overall, the number of people with high deductible plans rose to 15.5 million in 2013 from 1 million in 2005, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s lobbying group in Washington. The Internal Revenue Service largely defines high deductible health plans as those with an annual deductible of $1,250 or more for individual coverage.

“We expect the trend toward high deductibles to continue,” said Ceci Connolly, managing director of PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute in Washington. “There’s nothing in the law that curbs high deductibles and we very much expect more and more employers to move to high-deductible plans.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...fore-seeing-doctor-as-deductibles-spread.html

ACA supporters - care to comment?

 

[Bro. Curtis]

You hate poor people.

 

[Don]

You hate poor people.

But I'm not an insurer that's raising my deductibles; I'm one of those "average joes" that will have to pay the increased deductible....

 

[InTheLight]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...fore-seeing-doctor-as-deductibles-spread.html

ACA supporters - care to comment?

Not an ACA supporter (though I like parts of it). Going to high deductible plans is the easiest way for employers to defray the rising cost of health care insurance. It's just the way it is.

 

[Revmitchell]

High deductibles should equal lower premiums. When you have both high deductibles and higher premiums then you have a nightmare resulting from government interference.

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

What you have a government program designed to create a new tax without actually calling it a tax.