Obamacare premiums will rise steeply in Ohio in 2018, filings show

The Plain Dealer ^ | August 2, 2017 | Stephen Koff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ohio insurers want big premium hikes next year for individual health care policies in the Affordable Care Act market, with typical average increases of 20 percent or more.

Their rate requests have not yet been granted, but federal and state filings show the extent of the hikes insurers say they want -- and need -- because of expectations of costs for medical care, prescription drugs and the premiums necessary to cover these and other expenses. Insurers say they base their requests on how things went this year and last, and their projections for 2018.

These rate requests, and requests in other states, are likely to intensify public debate about Obamacare, at a time when Republicans in Congress have failed to repeal and replace it as they wished. Insurers and the Ohio Department of Insurance cautioned cleveland.com, which reviewed filings, that the rates are not final and could change. The state will continue reviewing premiums in coming weeks before sending its approval to Washington, where the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, will sign participation agreements with insurers in late September.

These rates also do not reflect the possibility that certain federal payments to insurers will end under President Donald Trump. The payments were built into the ACA as a way to hold down out-of-pocket costs for low-income buyers, and although Trump has threatened to stop them as a way he says could make the ACA crumble, a group of Democratic state attorneys general Tuesday won the right to keep up a legal challenge to prevent that.....

[EnglishOnly]

Be sure to send a Thank-You card to Juan McStooge AZ Senator when you mail in your new monthly payment.

[Berlin_Freeper]

You only need one kidney.

[House Atreides]

Just wait until the public gets a gander at the 2019 Obamacare rates that will come out in late October to early November 2018 — just before the 2018 elections. The ‘RAT Senators facing difficult reelections will find their chances significantly decreased.

DEATH SPIRAL!

[ak267]

This sucka is going down...

NO MORE SPICE!!!!

[dfwgator]

This is exactly what they wanted to happen. So that people will beg for Single-Payer.

We are being played.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Or one brain cell to be a bureaucrat or sit in congress.

[hal ogen]

Hahaha...hopefully, this will further p.o. people.

[Sasparilla]

....Just wait until the public gets a gander at the 2019 Obamacare rates that will come out in late October to early November 2018 — just before the 2018 elections...

Democrats, of course, will blame Republicans and especially DJT.

[Wolfie]

Healthcare costs are ever rising. Of course insurance premiums go up. That’s been the norm for 40 years. Those companies aren’t in business to lose money.

[ameribbean expat]

I am so glad OH has a Republican governor in John Kasich who will support free market reforms on Obamacare. /s

Seriously, I was up in NE Ohio in May, the rural County I was in had 23 overdoses in 24 hours. I can’t even begin to understand that in a Farm community, but there it is.

Something ain’t right.

[Whenifhow]

OHIO PING!!!

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[RockyTx]

is there some place online?

for Obamacare prices of.

various states
gender
age

deductible

of sample policies

[Jane Long]

Thank McStain AND thank Gov Kasicko, who can’t get enough of 0CommieCare.

[griswold3]

Sherrod Brown must go in 2018!!!!
Hope the GOP has a decent candidate!

[EVO X]

The following link is probably accurate within 10% for most basic plans. It is not going to reflect the cost of a multi state plan, etc. If you want to play with numbers this website is probably the easiest.

http://www.kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/