Who else received the friendly Anthem Blue Cross rate increase letter today?

[pinniped]

It is reported that the average increase for Californians will be 8% to 14%. Guess I'm not an average Californian, because my increase is more than double that high figure.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/23/business/la-fi-0223-health-insurance-rate-hikes-20120223

California health insurers to raise average rates 8% to 14%

The proposed premium hikes for hundreds of thousands of California consumers with individual coverage would outpace the cost of overall medical care, which has risen just 3.6% in the last year.

[flamingdem]

1. I heard that the highest increases

are for the older plans, meaning the ones that actually offered some real coverage. Or so they say.

[pinniped]

3. In 2010, they wanted up to a 39% increase.

Before this latest increase, the premium is just about what they wanted back in 2010. They just quietly raised it a little at a time. Now, they're going back in for the kill.

[winstars]

2. Mine is going from 311.00 to 433.00, I cannot afford it anymore...

It was 196.00 a month as recently as 2009, not to mention they raised my deductible from 3500.00 to 4200.00 in 2011...

And I have not used the insurance at all since 20010

Please excuse my words but: fuck these fuckers, double the price and a higher deductible, fuck them!!!

[pinniped]

4. If they're trying to price people out of the market, they're doing a pretty good job.

I don't know how many people can deal with these fucking outrageous increases. It's not like your job gives you a 30% raise every year.

[Fumesucker]

7. Won't be a problem in 2014..

Then you will be mandated to buy the insurance.

[SanDiegoBiker]

5. Our Anthem Blue Cross goes up 29% (270% in 3 years!)

Our letter from Anthem states a 29% increase. Three years ago our premiums were $256. They will now be $691 = a 270% increase. We receive NO benefits until we pay out $8,200 ourselves (a deductible that has also continuously increased).

Go to [link:http://justifyrates.org/| to print & sign a petition to put insurance reform on the California ballot.

[Fumesucker]

6. Not to worry, the PPACA will fix this problem..

Right?