05-26-2013, 08:53 PM
|
|
|
Confirmed User
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,626
|
Some Very Good News For Obamacare
It's not perfect, but it improves our fucked up system somewhat.
Quote:
Obamacare got some very good news on Thursday.
In 2009, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that a medium-level ?silver? plan ? which covers 70 percent of a beneficiary?s expected health costs ? on the California health exchange would cost $5,200 annually. More recently, a report from the consulting firm Milliman predicted it would carry a $450 monthly premium. Yesterday, we got the real numbers. And they?re lower than anyone thought.
As always, Sarah Kliff has the details. The California exchange will have 13 insurance options, and the heavy competition appears to be driving down prices. The most affordable silver-level plan is charging $276-a-month. The second-most affordable plan is charging $294. And all this is before subsidies. Someone making twice the poverty line, say, will only pay $104-a-month.
Sparer plans are even cheaper. A young person buying the cheapest ?bronze?-level plan will pay $172 ? and that, again, is before any subsidies.
|
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...for-obamacare/
 |
|
|