Obamacare Insurance Holders Rate Themselves Sicker: Survey

[Tkruger]

Individuals who purchased health insurance set up under U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law rate their personal health as worse than people who bought individual plans elsewhere, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found.

Obamacare insurance holders rate themselves sicker: survey | Reuters

Sicker client base = more use of benefits = more money being paid out by insurers

It should be interesting when the new rates come out...

 

[houcoogster]

Individuals who purchased health insurance set up under U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law rate their personal health as worse than people who bought individual plans elsewhere, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found.

Obamacare insurance holders rate themselves sicker: survey | Reuters

Sicker client base = more use of benefits = more money being paid out by insurers

It should be interesting when the new rates come out...

This should come as no surprise. Many people that signed up have Never had health insurance.

 

[Tkruger]

This should come as no surprise. Many people that signed up have Never had health insurance.

It really isn't...just scratching my head that everyone else is just figuring this out.

 

[RayNY]

People without health insurance are less healthy than people with it?

Mind=blown

As long as we're on the previously uninsured topic (percentage of exchange applicants who were previously uninsured):
Kaiser says 57%
Rand says 27% (24-36% depending on the month)
McKinsie says 14% (11%-27% depending on the month)
HHS says 85%

HHS is the only census, at least among all subsidy applicants, which covers 95% of all applicants on exchange, which is still a HUGE sample compared to the n=<1000 samples by the other companies. It also reports, by a long shot, the highest previously uninsured rate.

 

[AllenChicago]

March 29, 2016

Here, two years later, our common-sense foreknowledge has been confirmed by the numbers. Obamacare was designed poorly, and is unsustainable as is.

Ref: Obamacare Enrollees Are Sick And They're Getting A Lot Of Health Care

Insurers are preparing to increase 2017 rates to compensate, and panic is starting to grip the Democrats, ahead of the Presidential election.
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[Ann H]

March 29, 2016

Here, two years later, our common-sense foreknowledge has been confirmed by the numbers. Obamacare was designed poorly, and is unsustainable as is.

Ref: Obamacare Enrollees Are Sick And They're Getting A Lot Of Health Care

Insurers are preparing to increase 2017 rates to compensate, and panic is starting to grip the Democrats, ahead of the Presidential election.
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So funny how the slant from that Huffington Post article is different than the way CNN reported it this morning:

Obamacare patients sicker and pricier than expected - Mar. 30, 2016

 

[RayNY]

The scariest part about big rate increases, IMO, is the fact that the DFS in my state is just going to cut it in half.

They'll receive a meticulously prepared report hundreds of pages long, ignore all data and projections, and just cut the requested rate increase in half as a political ploy. This way, they can get on their soapbox and pound their chest while bragging about how much money they've saved consumers.

The reality is, they're mandating financial losses, and companies are going to realize they're better off not selling.

 

[Tkruger]

Tedx Astroturf....definitely worth a watch and it addresses the slant AnnH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYAQ-ZZtEU

 

[Yagents]

Close your eyes if you can't handle the truth:

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/cbo-obam...letter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-

 

[Tkruger]

Favorite line: Obamacare continues to fail. An alternative health reform is needed.