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Iowa health insurance customers complain about rate hikes
Iowa health insurance customers complain about rate hikes
Buy Photo Software consultant Mark Seaton, 53, of Urbandale, tells Insurance Commissioner Nick Gerhart he might soon have to drop health insurance because it's becoming too expensive.(Photo: Tony Leys/The Register)Buy PhotoIowa's insurance commissioner expressed sympathy Saturday with consumers who are outraged about steep premium increases for health insurance, and about the federal law requiring them to buy policies — but he offered little hope that he could help them much.The commissioner, Nick Gerhart, held a public hearing for Iowans being hit with double-digit increases on health policies they buy themselves instead of obtaining through an employer.
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Average health insurance premiums fell after Obamacare took effect, study says
Average health insurance premiums fell after Obamacare took effect, study says
Their article comes as California's Obamacare marketplace has revealed that rates on that health exchange will rise by an average of 13.2 percent next year.Many Obamacare insurance plans elsewhere have proposed increasing premiums by high single-digit or double-digit percentages for coverage in 2017.Those private plans, so-called individual market plans, are sold to individuals who do not have health coverage through either their jobs, or through government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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Why pulling the plug on health insurance mergers was bound to happen
Why pulling the plug on health insurance mergers was bound to happen
When Barack Obama passed his signature healthcare law in 2010, one of its aims was to encourage competition among insurers.The insurers reacted by snapping each other up.Last summer four of the five biggest health insurers announced mergers, cutting their number to three.
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