Reply #6: BC/BS raised my monthly health care premium by $400 a month. [View All]

[Mimosa]

I have to now drop health insurance until 2014 because I can't afford it. There's nothing for me and many people over 50, 55 and too young for Medicare.

So, through the fact that the insurance companies are allowed to raise their rates and reduce coverage, I am without help until 2014.I'm not poor enough for medicaid YET.

I don't want to go begging for charity. No American should have to. We've paid into the system. Our money would better help us all if we could buy into a regulated means adjusted public plan.