{"id":18980,"date":"2013-09-25T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18980"},"modified":"2013-09-25T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T21:19:23","slug":"self-employed-health-insurance-rates-soaring-as-obamacare-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18980\/self-employed-health-insurance-rates-soaring-as-obamacare-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Employed Health Insurance Rates Soaring as ObamaCare Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With ObamaCare\u2019s insurance exchanges going online next week, there is suddenly an avalanche of information confirming that the law is bending the cost curve significantly upward for people already buying health insurance on the individual market.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous example so far is conservative pundit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/09\/25\/obama_lied_my_health_plan_died_120085.html \" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin\u2019s notice<\/a> that her high-end PPO policy is being eliminated by her insurance provider in order \u201cto meet the requirements of the new laws,\u201d i.e. ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/09\/24\/one-man-obamacare-nightmare\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Jim Angle<\/a> of Fox News describes how a Kentucky family\u2019s monthly premium is set to spike from $333 to $965. Humana, the family\u2019s insurance provider, explains that \u201cIncreases aren\u2019t based on your individual claims or changes in health status. Many other factors go in to your premium including: [ObamaCare] compliance, including the addition of new essential health benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those \u201cnew essential health benefits\u201d are a big part of what will make many plans bought by individuals and families unaffordable under ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>As I write in <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1974-obamacares-biggest-lie- \" target=\"_blank\">this week\u2019s column<\/a>, the disruptive impact of ObamaCare on the self-employed is just one element of many that, taken together, articulates ObamaCare\u2019s biggest lie.<\/p>\n<p>Defund, repeal or replace \u2013 whichever it is, this law cannot be allowed to stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With ObamaCare\u2019s insurance exchanges going online next week, there is suddenly an avalanche of information confirming that the law is bending the cost curve significantly upward for people already buying health insurance on the individual market. The most famous example so far is conservative pundit Michelle Malkin\u2019s notice that her high-end PPO policy is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3074,3308,1829,35,4214],"class_list":["post-18980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cost","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18986,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions\/18986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}