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I am calling on behalf of the rate increase for Wellmark plans. All of them in general, a 12 % increase is not ideal. Insurance is expensive enough as it is and more often than not, all individuals find that their insurance doesn't cover as much as what we thought it does, making it even more expensive. I simply cannot afford a 12 % increase on my insurance, and I only pay for a single individual plan.
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I received a letter about my Welmark proposed base premium rate increase today and the public hearing. Is there anything else you need to know about that? Wellmark Health plan of Iowa has asked permission to increase the base premium rate by 12.6 %. I'm calling because I'm a retireee on the ACA plan, and I already pay, I mean the full cost of that plan is eight to $900 a month, so a 12 % increase for its retireee to pay. I have from 60 to 65 until I get on Medicare. So that's a lot for me. It seems our rates just keep going up, up, up, and there's NO relief. And other countries don't have to pay all this money for medical care. And I'm worried that the budget bill in Congress might have impacted it, so I called my senator Grassly and representative none to discuss it with them. But I do not agree with this in rate rate increase. I cannot afford it, and that's a lot for one year or 12 %. That's a lot for retiree's budget. So what are we doing to curve these costs? What are we doing to make it reasonable? It seems like we're turning back the clock. I mean, everything I've heard about the budget bill, people are gonna lose coverage in mass numbers for Medicaid. We're gonna go back to, to when, before ACA, when so many people were uninsured or can't even afford it. We're going backwards in time. So NO, I don't agree with this rate increase. My name is Lori Runkle again Ankony Iowa. I'm on the Wellmark Health Plan.
Lori, Ankeny