Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans. The projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year—a subject of rigorous debate.
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Health Insurers Warn On Premiums, The Wall Street Journal
Friday, March 22, 2013
New England Grocery Unions Face Grueling Obamacare Test, InTheseTimes.com
Monday, March 04, 2013
“It’s a nightmare” that has been created not by corporate pressure to cut labor costs, but by the fumbling bureaucratic requirements of federal health law, he says. Stop & Shop faces increased health insurance costs as high as $250 million over three years should all 40,000 UFCW workers continue receiving the same health care insurance benefits as under the current contract. The increased costs are mostly created, he explains, when the Obamacare requirement that medical benefit caps be eliminated prompts insurance companies to raise rates to cover the greater costs. “When we backed Obamacare, we were told that if we had good health insurance and wanted to keep it, we could," Charette adds. "What happened to that?”
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It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Obamacare, The Wall Street Journal
Monday, December 31, 2012
For sheer political farce, not much can compete with ObamaCare's passage, which included slipping the bill through the Senate before dawn three Christmas eves ago. But the madcap dash to get ready for the entitlement's October 2013 start-up date is a pretty close second.
The size and complexity of the Affordable Care Act meant that its implementation was never going to easy. But behind the scenes, even states that support or might support the Affordable Care Act are frustrated about the Health and Human Services Department's special combination of rigidity and ineptitude.
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The size and complexity of the Affordable Care Act meant that its implementation was never going to easy. But behind the scenes, even states that support or might support the Affordable Care Act are frustrated about the Health and Human Services Department's special combination of rigidity and ineptitude.
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Obamacare: Pain 2.0, The New York Post
Thursday, December 27, 2012
The Post in recent days has shined a glaring spotlight on the hurt New Yorkers will feel from looming tax hikes, absent a fiscal-cliff deal. But just a year later, they’ll get another round of sticker shock when they see the high price of “free” health insurance under ObamaCare.
Here are a couple of examples of what New York families would have to pay for coverage when the program starts in 2014:
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Here are a couple of examples of what New York families would have to pay for coverage when the program starts in 2014:
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Obamacare's Costs To The Working Class, Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
I count myself as an ObamaCare supporter, but this doesn't blind me to the law's flaws. Bipartisan compromise will be necessary to reform health care in a constructive way. I have been researching ObamaCare and assisting with its implementation, and have come to this realization: Without further reforms, the law will create unnecessary costs for working-class Americans.
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