US Presidency
2010

So she tried to do the right thing. And she upped her deductible last year to the minimum , the highest possible deductible. But despite that, Natoma's insurance company raised her premiums by more than 25 percent. And over the past year, she paid more than $ 6,000 in monthly premiums. She paid more than $ 4,000 in out-of-pocket medical costs, for riverbed and medical care and prescriptions. So all together, this woman paid $ 10,000 one year. But because she never hit her deductible, her insurance company only spent $ 900 on her care. So the insurance company is making getting $ 10,000; paying out $ 900. Now, what comes in the mail at the end of last year? It's a letter telling Natoma that her premiums would go up again by more than 40 percent. So here's what happens. She just couldn't afford it. She didn't have the money. She realized that if she paid those health insurance premiums that had been jacked up by 40 percent, she couldn't make her mortgage.