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TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts) Sun Oct 23, 2016, 03:04 AM Oct 2016

Health insurance costs rising dramatically for ACA plans

Nebraskans looking at individual health insurance plans under the federal Affordable Care Act likely will be shocked at the price increases for next year -- an average 50 percent premium hike.

The actual increase depends on where you live, whether you are a smoker and other factors. But the premiums have gone up significantly, said Martin Swanson, with the Nebraska Department of Insurance.

The premiums for small-group insurance are rising much less, an average 16 percent average, he said during a public forum sponsored by Rep. Jeff Fortenberry on Wednesday.

For example, a silver plan under ACA will cost a 28-year-old about $337 a month in the group market next year, but about $425 in the individual market, said Chris McPike, a vice president of ComPro, a health insurance brokerage company.

Read more: http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/federal-politics/health-insurance-costs-rising-dramatically-for-aca-plans/article_e32a0a89-8b18-5035-b712-2c552ce6b90a.html

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Health insurance costs rising dramatically for ACA plans (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP

Repeal and Replace (with Single Payer). putitinD Oct 2016 #1

The price increases are killing my son and DIL. She is now actively looking Nay Oct 2016 #2

putitinD

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1. Repeal and Replace (with Single Payer).

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Sun Oct 23, 2016, 04:28 AM

Oct 2016

Nay

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2. The price increases are killing my son and DIL. She is now actively looking

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Sun Oct 23, 2016, 09:38 AM

Oct 2016

for a job with health benefits, no matter what the job is. They just can't handle the monthly payments and, if something big actually went wrong, we (the parents) would pick up the thousands of dollars of deductible just to get them out of the hospital alive.

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