http://dagblog.com/link/health-insurance-costs-are-taking-biggest-jumps-years-35923 Comments for "Health-Insurance Costs Are Taking Biggest Jumps in Years" en http://dagblog.com/comment/328251#comment-328251 <a id="comment-328251"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/health-insurance-costs-are-taking-biggest-jumps-years-35923">Health-Insurance Costs Are Taking Biggest Jumps in Years</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Medicare: not free to users, premiums, deducted from your Social Security payouts, are going up 6% next year while COLA increase on Social Security is going to be 3.2% </p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Medicare Part B premiums are set to rise by 6 percent in 2024. <a href="https://t.co/hIyIu2Mtne">https://t.co/hIyIu2Mtne</a></p> — The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1712698685614633269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> <p>(And having a major 20%+ co-pay as well unless you sign all its priliveges away to a Part C/Advantage Plan to a for-profit HMO with highly limited providers, or have an expensive Supplemental Plan.</p> <p> Who knew? Well I did, for one. It's not at all what lefties in the Obama years cracked it up to be. Not at all. Not what Bernie wants you to know when he does his 'Medicare for all" shtick)</p> </div></div></div> Fri, 13 Oct 2023 05:29:15 +0000 artappraiser comment 328251 at http://dagblog.com