Posted on 09/25/2013 8:20:26 AM PDT by tobyhill
U.S. officials for the first time disclosed insurance prices that will be offered through new federally run health-care exchanges starting Oct. 1, showing that young, healthy buyers likely will pay more than they do currently while older, sicker consumers should get a break.
The plans, offered under the health-care overhaul to people who don't get insurance through an employer or government program, in many cases provide broader coverage than current policies.
Costs will vary widely from state to state and for different types of consumers. Government subsidies will cut costs for some lower-income consumers.
Across the country, the average premium for a 27-year-old nonsmoker, regardless of gender, will start at $163 a month for the lowest-cost "bronze" plan; $203 for the "silver" plan, which provides more benefits than bronze; and $240 for the more-comprehensive "gold" plan.
But for some buyers, prices will rise from today's less-comprehensive policies. In Nashville, Tenn., a 27-year-old male nonsmoker could pay as little as $41 a month now for a bare-bones policy, but would pay $114 a month for the lowest-cost bronze option in the new federal health exchanges.
Likewise, the least-expensive bronze policy would rise to $195 a month in Philadelphia for that same 27-year-old, from $73 today. In Cheyenne, Wyo., the lowest-cost option would be $271 a month, up from $82 today.
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MomDoc will likely pitch the fancy car and stay home being a mom.
Instead you will see OverworkedGrumpyDoc...
How can prices vary from city to cite and state to state? Income tax rates are the same everywhere. Why shouldn’t this “tax” be the same?
They’ll have to use the National Guard to make gangbangers buy insurance.
It’s actually going to be funny when one of those “navigators” drives into the hood. “Hey, man! He says he’s from the government and he’s selling obamacare!”
“Kill him anyway!”
I guess it depends on the number of D’s and R’s in a zip code
I want the mocha plan as in mocha messiah (0bama)
“And they will blame the “greedy doctors”...”””””
What doctors? What nurses? What medical specialists???
A poll early this year aid that as much as 70% of current medical personnel will quit the profession & do something else.
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