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The Future of Television

How Internet TV Could Cost You Thousands of Dollars a Month

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Ah, the promise of Internet TV – a world where consumer choice rules and hated cable companies are history.

But that's not how it's working out. In fact, if America's top two telecom companies – Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) – have their way, Internet TV will become nothing more than a fresh profit generator that will cost consumers a fortune.

Here's what you could be paying...

obamacare

Cost of Obamacare Plans to Rise as Much as 70% in 2016

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The cost of Obamacare is turning out to be higher than all but a few critics had anticipated.

Health insurance companies have submitted their Obamacare rate proposals for 2016, and many requests are for increases in the double digits.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. In fact, the supporters of the Affordable Care Act promised that insurance rates would go down, not up.

Here's why things aren't working out as expected...