Obamacare Insurance Costs Affordable, Kaiser Survey Finds

[Purveyor]

By Alex Wayne - Sep 5, 2013

A 25-year-old New Yorker earning $25,000 a year will pay as little as $62 a month for health insurance next year, and a peer living in Vermont may pay nothing, according to a 17-state survey of premiums under the U.S. health-care overhaul.

The Kaiser Family Foundation report is the broadest look yet at what consumers will pay for health insurance when the Affordable Care Act takes full effect next year. The cost issue has been a top concern for President Barack Obama’s administration, which is trying to persuade at least 7 million Americans who now lack insurance to sign up for coverage starting Oct. 1.

California and New York are among the states that have announced rates for the plans to be sold through marketplaces called exchanges. Republican officials in states including Ohio, Indiana and Georgia have released partial information on premiums, emphasizing big increases for some customers.

“There’s obviously intense interest in what the choices are going to look like for consumers and what they’re going to have to pay in 2014,” Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at Menlo Park, California-based Kaiser, said in a phone interview. “For the most part insurers seem to find this market attractive and they’re pricing accordingly.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/obamacare-insurance-costs-affordable-kaiser-survey-finds.html

[riqster]

1. Anecdotal naysayers posting in 3....2....1.....

The numbers show that this can work better then the status quo, especially when it isn't sabotaged at the state level.

[JoePhilly]

2. ObamaCare caused my shingles!!!

[riqster]

3. Dude, you're late.

[JoePhilly]

4. I felt bad too ... see ...

I knew this thread wasn't going to get any hits, and here I was 3 minutes late.

Your OP title needed more HUMMPF!

You should have gone with ...

Greenwald confirms that ObamaCare launched chemical attack on Syria

Your thread would be on the greatest page for the rest of September.

[riqster]

5. Oh, and lots of !!!!!!! and OHNOES. I always forget those essential Internet thingummies.

Or better yet,

OMG!!!! Greenwald confirms that ObamaCare launched chemical attack on Syria despite Elizabeth Warren and Rand Paul's Hunger Strike for Fundamentalist Gay Whales' access to birth control!!!! 11s! I'm Series!

Did I miss any buzzwords?

[JoePhilly]

6. I think that all the important buzzies

[SoCalDem]

7. Olive Garden & Cornflake chicken & breastfeeding...and perhaps home schooling

A+ for your headline, though

[SoCalDem]

8. a single 27 yr old making $10 hr for 30hr workweek

means no more piggybacking on parents' policy
and under the "minimum" hours needed for company coverage..

Here's what THEY would pay:

they are at 131% of poverty level and would pay ZERO...and would be covered by medicaid

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married to a another of same circumstance and add a kid, and you get :

$787.00 a month for SILVER PLAN

MINUS 683 SUBSIDY..

ending up with $104 per month for TWO parents AND the baby

$34.67 per person...

and that's SILVER...not bronze