Health Plans Cheaper on Obamacare Exchanges

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Report: Health plans cheaper on exchanges

By Ferdous Al-Faruque - 06/06/14 02:32 PM EDT

Four major healthcare companies offer plans separate from ObamaCare marketplaces that are more costly than similar plans on the exchanges, according to a study released this week.

HealthPocket, a consumer research group, compared off-exchange plans based on premium prices offered by United Healthcare, Aetna, Cigna, and Assurant to similar bronze, silver, and gold plans sold through the exchanges and found the off-exchange plans average 40 percent more expensive.

The battle over premium prices in the federal and state exchanges is already heating up as states begin to release premium costs over the summer.

As the midterm elections roll around, Republicans have warned costs are bound to balloon by double-digit percentages, but Democrats have fought back saying the issue is baseless and overblown.

A major point in the debate has been how to compare future premium prices with past costs. Earlier this week the Commonwealth Fund released a report that found premium prices were rising 10 percent annually before ObamaCare went into effect.
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[Lief 🗽]

Thank you Obama!

[AggregateDemand]

Margarine causes 10% fewer heart attacks than butter. America saved!

Americans 5% less obese than 10 years ago. Salvation has come to America!!

[King]

Margarine causes 10% fewer heart attacks that butter. America saved!

Americans 5% less obese than 10 years ago. Salvation has come to America!!

I would complain, but I prefer this to your pseudo-intellectual walls of text.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Again, I cannot emphasize how happy I am now that I have and am able to afford health insurance coverage. Obamacare isn't perfect, but it sure beats the alternative: nothing.

[Хahar 🤔]

Margarine causes 10% fewer heart attacks than butter. America saved!

Americans 5% less obese than 10 years ago. Salvation has come to America!!

Are you familiar with the nirvana fallacy?

[AggregateDemand]

Margarine causes 10% fewer heart attacks than butter. America saved!

Americans 5% less obese than 10 years ago. Salvation has come to America!!

Are you familiar with the nirvana fallacy?

Are you familiar with Stockholm Syndrome? This is nothing more than people thanking their captors for beating them a bit less than usual.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Margarine causes 10% fewer heart attacks than butter. America saved!

Americans 5% less obese than 10 years ago. Salvation has come to America!!

Are you familiar with the nirvana fallacy?

Are you familiar with Stockholm Syndrome? This is nothing more than people thanking their captors for beating them a bit less than usual.

Stop trolling.

[AggregateDemand]

Stop trolling.

Look at international healthcare data and then tell me if I'm trolling. US costs are 200% higher than the next nation. We pay $3,300 per capita, yet a majority of the population receives no public healthcare benefit.

If I were a Democrat, and my political vanity hinged on the public healthcare system, I'd deny its faults as well.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Margarine causes 10% fewer heart attacks than butter. America saved!

Americans 5% less obese than 10 years ago. Salvation has come to America!!

Ignoring everything else that's wrong with your argument, you do realize that fewer heart attacks and less obesity are good things, right?  Your post seems more like a True Left argument against Obamacare than one from the right (i.e. Obamacare doesn't go far enough).

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Stop trolling.

Look at international healthcare data and then tell me if I'm trolling. US costs are 200% higher than the next nation. We pay $3,300 per capita, yet a majority of the population receives no public healthcare benefit.

If I were a Democrat, and my political vanity hinged on the public healthcare system, I'd deny its faults as well.

The Democrats never defended the status quo of the public healthcare system pre-Obamacare.  Not only did you completely change the topic to avert from your asinine comment, you're just making stuff up as you go.

You're a troll.  Admit it.

[AggregateDemand]

The Democrats never defended the status quo of the public healthcare system pre-Obamacare.  Not only did you completely change the topic to avert from your asinine comment, you're just making stuff up as you go.

You're a troll.  Admit it.

Democrats invented the public healthcare system pre-Obamacare, less Bush's Medicare Part D debacle. Democrats have been trying to marry the healthcare state to the government-subsidized "private" insurance industry since the Hillarycare era. When they had control of the executive branch and congress, they may have succeeded in creating a slightly less horrible version of what they have endorsed for a half century, though the jury is still out.

There is no private healthcare system, except for concierge medicine to the economic elites, like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. If healthcare sucks in America, it's because the people who write the healthcare regulations are incompetent.

ACA is a slightly less vigorous beating, paid for by the elites who don't even use health insurance.