2016 Health Insurance Premiums
Those of us in the private health insurance market in Minnesota are being socked with 40-50% increases in premiums eff 1-1-16. I may have to put the RV up on blocks and park it in the driveway. I have...
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ugh wrote:gcloss wrote:
I'm part owner of a small company. Our group rates for 2016 went up 37.3% for a high deductible plan. The monthly rate for a family is now $2341 with a $10,000 deductible and a maximum family out of pocket of $12,700 per year.
Affordable my a$$.
If you own the company and have less than 100 or 50 employees, why not just shift the employees to Healthcare.gov? You cannot compete with what is being offered on that website. I mean are you by law required to provide health insurance? if not, just tell them to go there like my old boss did.
This is the reason why I was against that rule. I truly believe that companies should not offer health insurance, and it should be left to us to sop for it like car insurance. To many companies offer one package and it's lousy. Shopping around for individual cover or at AFA website, you have ton of choices.
We have 85 employees. The law requires employers with 50 or more employees must offer healthcare insurance.
