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Dec 16 2015

Standard & Poor's says health plans are all losing lots of money on the insurance exchange business.

https://www.globalcreditportal.com/ratingsdirect/renderArticle.do?articleId=1551800&SctArtId=360292&from=CM&nsl_code=LIME&sourceObjectId=9444273&sourceRevId=4&fee_ind=N&exp_date=20251214-20:14:33?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvKXKe%2B%2FhmjTEU5z17e8oXKS2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DT8FgN6%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk
Oct 02 2015

Even the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan isn't immune from health care cost growth, premiums for that plan are going up an average of 6.4% for 2016, almost twice the rate of the last few years.

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20150929/NEWS03/150929822?tags=%7C63%7C307%7C329%7C74
Apr 13 2015

Accenture estimates that private insurance exchange membership doubled in 2015, to 6 million people, and will grow to 40 million in 2018.

http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-private-health-insurance-exchange-annual-enrollment.aspx
Jan 28 2015

Contrary to what would be expected a new piece of research finds that having more insurers compete one of the reform exchanges results in higher, not lower, premiums, but the likely explanation is that there are more insurers offering plans in urban areas which also have higher medical costs.

http://f1000research.com/articles/4-25/v1
Jan 28 2015

Health insurance exchanges that basically allow any insurer meeting certain standards to sell end up with lower prices than those that try to actively negotiate with plans, according to research in Health Affairs, proving once again the ineptitude of bureaucrats who think they know best.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/1/161.abstract
Nov 25 2014

Avalere releases a more accurate analysis of public exchange premiums than most of the crap being put out, demonstrating that for the plans that were most popular in 2014, premiums are increasing an average of 10%. That is a massive jump for consumers.

http://avalerehealth.net/expertise/managed-care/insights/avalere-analysis-most-popular-exchange-plans-are-increasing-price
Nov 24 2014

An analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports on medical and drug deductibles in public exchange plans for 2015.  For the popular bronze plans, average deductibles are over $5000, and they aren't a lot lower for silver plans.

http://kff.org/health-reform/fact-sheet/medical-and-prescription-drug-deductibles-for-plans-offered-in-federally-facilitated-and-partnership-marketplaces-for-2015/
Nov 03 2014

A Bankrate survey of people who purchased insurance through the exchanges last year finds that only 43% say they will re-up this year.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102142296?trknav=homestack:topnews:11
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