http://blog.heritage.org/category/health-care/
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/07/01/obamacare-shocker-premiums-could-double/
“Obamacare Shocker: Premiums Could Double”
Chris Jacobs
July 1, 2013 at 11:01 am
SNIPPET: “This morning’s Wall Street Journal published its own analysis of premiums under Obamacare, and its conclusions will prompt shock—rate shock—among those who need to buy health insurance under the law’s new exchanges next year:
Healthy consumers could see insurance rates double or even triple when they look for individual coverage under the federal health law later this year, while the premiums paid by sicker people are set to become more affordable, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of coverage to be sold on the law’s new exchanges. The exchanges, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, look likely to offer few if any of the cut-rate policies that healthy people can now buy, according to the Journal’s analysis.
The article goes on to provide specific examples of the kind of premium hikes many Americans may face under Obamacare:”
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Previously...
“Obamacare and Insurance Rating Rules: Increasing Costs and Destabilizing Markets”
By Edmund F. Haislmaier
January 20, 2011
Thanks for keeping this record up to date; and to all of you who have done so with your topics as well.