  Costs of health reform law start showing up  December 13, 2012
The Altoona Mirror   Well, we're learning more and more about
Obamacare, and we're finding we were misled.  Part of the law
requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing
health conditions. That wouldn't cost health insurance policy
holders anything, we were assured.  Now Obamacare includes an
annual charge for each health insurance policy holder to help
defray the cost of coverage for those with pre-existing medical
conditions. The charge - initially $63 - allegedly will go away
after a few years.  But given the government's record, why
should Americans have any faith in the administration's promise
the fee will decline and eventually go away? It seems much more
likely that the fee will stay the same or go up.  And you know
who will pay for it: you, the worker. Despite what some in
fantasyland think, companies do not have an endless supply of
money, and the added fee eventually will work its way down,
either through higher premi