Grand Theft Nation: Red States, Younger Americans See Highest Rate Hikes from Obamacare.

PJ Tatler ^ | October 18, 2013 | Bryan Preston

[Caipirabob]

Looks like we had to sell a few states to afford the exchanges...

[sport]

Good! That is what they voted for. Let then enjoy it.

[Mister Da]

A quick look at the chart leads me to believe that rates decline primarily in states with very high insurance premiums.

New York premiums (adult age 27) were more than 5 times that of Georgia, Kansas, & Idaho. Now, they are less than twice as much.

This is just wealth redistribution from poorer states to richer states.

[txhurl]

Or is this insuring illegal Mexicans? The premium hikes correlate to where they’ve invaded.

[Library Lady]

I live in southwest Virginia and am very conservative. You say I deserve this? Thanks a lot. Most everyone from northern Virginia think the state ends in Roanoke anyway. Maybe that could be the cut off line and we could be added to West Virginia.

[barefoot_hiker]

So are the “BEFORE” numbers for a comparable policy - i.e. similar coverages and deductible? I assume so, otherwise the comparison would not be that useful.

[TurboZamboni]

[manc]

LOL most of the north east for me

[roses of sharon]

The Tea Party of old was filled with REAL men who would not abide a gov stealing his livelihood and the endangering the health/welfare of his family.

Where are these men now?

[Monitor]

The law is predicated on the notion that younger Americans, many of whom are healthy, have not started families yet and do not yet buy their own health insurance, will now flock to the Obamacare exchanges and buy insurance in droves. The law depends on them doing that, and may collapse if they do not, as insurance companies will not have enough healthy customers to offset the cost of the unhealthy customers that Obamacare forces them to take on.

I'm beginning to believe that the law is predicated on enough poor people buying heavily subsidized (at taxpayer expense) overpriced policies to offset the unhealthy costomers.

Unless you have a low enough income (or are willing to lie) to qualify for enough of a subsidy to make purchasing an overpriced policy on the exchange, you'd be better off buying a market-priced individual policy directly from an insurance company.

[lepton]

“Where’s Hawaii?”

In the Pacific.

That said, they may be not on the list because they have no exchange yet and don’t expect to for a few more weeks?

[lepton]

The law is predicated on enough healthy young people to subsidize the relatively rich senior citizens.