More increases ahead for health insurance quoting : York Dispatch

One wonders how citizens can afford to pay for health insurance at the present rates, let alone if the insurance is increased next year. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) (Photo: Orlin Wagner / AP)In early June, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department, which has the authority to adjust rates, received rate increase requests from the five health insurance agencies that offer plans to the public marketplace in Pennsylvania. If she were to lose it, she wouldn't be able to afford the $13,000-a-year out-of-pocket maximum under her husband's insurance. The commissioner not only heard insurance company arguments for rate increases in the morning, but she also heard the stories of many poor and working-class people in the afternoon. PA, and our statewide organization convinced the insurance commissioner to hold a first-ever public hearing last year that was held in Harrisburg.




"What most people have seen is that ... when parents have access to health insurance that kids are more likely to have health insurance," Speer said. She said that is not surprising, because the ACA led to significant gains in health insurance coverage for adults since 2010. But, "Of the child health trends tracked by Kids Count, the most remarkable is the tremendous increase in health insurance coverage; 95 percent of American children now have health insurance," the report says. A leading children's welfare group on Tuesday urged state and federal policymakers to continue investing in programs that improve kids health, including Obamacare, whose expansion led to a sharp decrease in the number of kids without health insurance from 2010 through 2015. By 2015, about 5 percent of kids, or 3.5 million lacked insurance, the Kids Count report says.

Study finds Oregon public school teachers' health insurance and pension costs are higher than in some school districts elsewhere in Northwest . News

Oregon public school districts' spending on teachers' health insurance and pensions is significantly higher than at some school districts in Washington state and Idaho, says a new study from Portland State University. Total compensation paid by a district includes salary, pension contributions and health insurance premiums for an employee. The high cost of those benefits meant that teachers' total compensation at five Oregon school districts — Portland, Salem-Keizer, Beaverton and Lake Oswego, and Hillsboro — was around 30 percent higher than for teachers at school districts in Vancouver, Wash., and Boise, Idaho, across various levels of classroom experience. To read more, visit the Register Guard.


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