Obamacare’s enormous premium increases
An Obamacare protester at the Supreme Court in an undated photo. Credit: Getty Images
Sticker shock is coming this fall for millions of people who shop for an Affordable Care Act individual market plan for 2017. Some of the price increases are dramatic. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (covering 600,000 enrollees) requested a 59 percent premium increase. Providence Health Plan in Oregon (covering 100,000 enrollees) requested a 32 percent hike. Anthem of Indiana (covering 70,000 enrollees) requested a 29 percent hike.
Brian Blase is a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where his research focuses on the Affordable Care Act and health care entitlement programs. He previously worked on health policy issues as a professional staff member of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
