Gettin a head start??

I don't quite know what or why this is happening, but my daughter who was working two jobs to make ends meet until her husband got Social Security Disability payments. It took over two years of trying with an incurable degenerative disease which effects the nerves in his hands and feet, similar to neuropathy. He has little to no feeling in his hands and feet and by trade he is an electician. It took three refusals and an attorney to finally get approved as disabled....Anyway that's not the reason for this post.
Last week, my daughter who has health insurance for the family through her employer.was informed that the insurance premium was being increased for next year. It will be increasing by $500.00 a month making the total payment of $1200.00 a month just to cover medical expenses for the three of them. With the raise in payments she will now bring home about 700.00.
This must have something to do with the scare in the insurance industry about the upcoming vote on National Health Care. Now I don't know if this insurance company is for the Socialized Medicine or not but it sure is making this family look at the possiblily of quiting a job to be eligible for medical assistance from the State. This is an increase of almost 50% and is an outrage. Her husband cannot get Medicare because he has not been disabled by their computation for 24 months. I will be checking with the state licensing bureau about the legality of such an increase, but it's probably within their charter.....I also heard of other companies doing similar increases. where is the logic in this move to increase premiums so drastically .....just saying.....