A report reveals again how hospitals extort high prices from private health plans.
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Hard to figure out what is really happening with premiums for health insurance purchased on the reform law exchanges.
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Seems obvious, but a Health Affairs study confirms that premiums on the insurance exchanges are higher when fewer plans participate.
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A new analysis from Avalere finds staggering rises in the Silver, or benchmarking, level health plan premiums on the insurance exchanges.
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A study in Health Affairs confirms that using a limited provider network results in lower premiums, around 7% less on average, for plans on the health insurance exchanges, but many consumers are unaware of the consequences of a limited network, which may not include their usual providers, and that 7% doesn't seem like much in light of the horrendous premium rises expected for 2017.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/10/1842.abstractThe Kaiser Family Foundation releases a brief summarizing the trends in 2017 exchange premiums to date.
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A Commonwealth Fund brief tracks trends in individual health insurance policies sold on and off the health insurance exchanges.
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A Commonwealth Fund report examines trends in consumer cost-sharing for exchange plans.
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McKinsey issues results of a survey it conducted of exchange enrollees.
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A Kaiser Family Foundation Article examines factors influencing 2017 premium rates for the public insurance exchanges and urges caution in assuming large increases. Wishful thinking.
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An analysis from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation analyzes factors underlying consumers' choices of plans on the insurance exchanges.
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A brief PriceWaterhouseCooper report examines premium trends on the reform law's health insurance exchanges.
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Brookings looks at price and competition on several health insurance exchanges for 2016 and it doesn't seem good.
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An analysis of premium data from the health insurance exchanges confirms that people are going to be paying more in 2016.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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