The Obamacare News That Republicans Don’t Want You To Hear About

[TomCADem]

In advance of the Sunday (GOP) news shows, here is some news that will be conspicuously ignored in favor the right wing talking point of the moment.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/09/05/3563676/the-obamacare-news-republicans-dont-want-you-to-know-about/

Health insurance premiums across 15 states and the District of Columbia will fall in 2015, a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds. The analysis, which examined the second-lowest cost silver plan in the marketplaces, concludes that subsidy-eligible individuals “whose income does not change will generally pay a little less to enroll in the second-lowest cost silver plan in 2015 than they did if they enrolled in the second-lowest cost plan in 2014.”

Silver plans cover approximately 70 percent of enrollees’ health expenses on average.

The results are significant because in 2014, sixty-five percent of enrollees signed up for a silver-level policy, and the coverage is “generally the least expensive option someone without employer-based coverage can choose to satisfy the ACA’s requirement to have insurance or pay a penalty,” according to the report.

“Across the 15 cities we examined, the premium for the second-lowest-cost silver plan in the marketplaces – before taking any income-related tax credits into account – is decreasing by an average of -0.8%,” authors Cynthia Cox, Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton, Rosa Ma, Robin Duddy-Tenbrunsel conclude. This finding cut against predictions of double or triple digit increases by Republican lawmakers eager to tear down the law.