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Oct 24 2013

Health consultant Sherlock Company's 19th annual health plan pricing survey indicates that plans are anticipating 9.6% rate increases in 2014, which may be reduced to 6.8% after benefit changes.  This rate of change would be an uptick from the past several years and likely reflects effects of the reform law.

http://www.sherlockco.com/docs/navigator/Navigator%20Late%20October%202013.pdf
Oct 24 2013

The health reform law doesn't need more evidence at this point of what a disaster it is, but the New York Times carries an article revealing that consumers in rural areas are going to pay a particularly high price when they go shopping for health insurance on the non-functioning exchanges.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/business/health-law-fails-to-keep-prices-low-in-rural-areas.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131023&tntemail0=y&_r=0
Oct 23 2013

As a concession to single-payer advocates, the reform law created public coop plans as an alternative, but an article in the Washington Post finds that they are flailing, with many in financial trouble and likely to default on billions of dollars in loans.
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