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Evening Must-Read: Michael Hiltzik: That Double-Digit Rise in Obamacare Premiums? Not Happening

Michael Hiltzik: That predicted double-digit rise in Obamacare premiums? Not happening: Another stake in the heart of a popular anti-Obamacare claim…

…has arrived from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which compiled the projected premium changes for 2015 in 15 states and the District of Columbia. Its finding is that premiums for the lowest-cost, most popular individual health plans will be dropping for next year, by a nationwide average of 0.8%…. ‘Now that insurers have been able to see what their competitors are charging… they are making strategic adjustments in how they price…’ [said the] Kaiser Family Foundation, explaining why healthcare premiums are holding steady…. That’s just one of several indicators recently released that demonstrate that the Affordable Care Act is working as planned and that the parade of horribles so deeply relished by its opponents hasn’t materialized…

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Evening Must-Read: Michael Hiltzik: That Double-Digit Rise in Obamacare Premiums? Not Happening

September 7, 2014

September 7, 2014

U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon