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发帖数: 29846 | 1 当然这货现在说这个涨价不是他的错.
Obama Tries to Blame Insurers For Coming ObamaCare Rate Shocks
BY JOHN MERLINE
07/08/2015 02:13 PM ET
President Obama is already pointing the finger of blame at greedy insurance
companies for what many expect will be huge ObamaCare premium hikes when
people go to sign up for their 2016 health insurance.
On his ObamaCare victory tour last week after the Supreme Court ruling on
insurance subsidies, Obama bragged at an event in Tennessee about the many
wonderful aspects of the law, including the fact that "we're actually seeing
less health care inflation."
But then a questioner had the temerity to ask Obama about massive rate hikes
in the state: "I don't know if you're aware," the questioner said, "that
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has announced a significant increase after
the one that they gave from 2014 to 2015."
BCBS is asking for a 36.3% hike in premiums this year, on top of the 18%-
plus increase they got last year, because "claims significantly exceed the
premiums collected."
Obama's response was to tell her to "stay on your insurance commissioner,
pay attention to what they're doing." Those insurance companies, he said,
always ask for sky-high rate increases, and if the commissioner "does their
job in not just passively reviewing the rates" then rates will "come in
significantly lower than what's being requested."
Oh really?
Well, in Oregon it was the insurance commissioner herself who ordered four
companies to raise their premiums by far more than the insurers themselves
had requested.
Oregon's Health Co-Op, for example, wanted to boost premiums 5.3%. The
insurance commissioner told it to raise them 19.9%.
HealthNet proposed a 9% increase, only to be ordered to hike premiums 34.8%.
And the commissioner granted other rate hike requests ranging up to 37.8%.
Pat Allen, director of the state Department of Consumer and Business
Services, told the Oregonian that "we need to ensure a market that long term
is stable, competitive and ensures pricing that is much closer to the cost
of delivering health care."
But as Oregon State Public Interest Research Group's Jesse Ellis O'Brien
told the New York Times, the resulting "rate increases will be bigger in
2016 than they have been for years and years and will have a profound effect
on consumers here. Some may start wondering if insurance is affordable or
if it's worth the money."
He's right. And there's little reason to believe that Tennessee's
commissioner, or those in other states, will have any more luck bringing
down jumbo-sized rate requests than did Oregon's.
That's because, as with Oregon, regulators have to make sure their insurance
markets don't collapse. And the big insurers asking for double-digit rate
hikes are backing those requests up with cold hard claims data which show
that costs per enrollee are far higher than expected. (Which is what critics
of the law said would happen.)
So if ObamaCare enrollees want to complain about next year's sky-high
ObamaCare premiums, they should address them not to their insurance company,
or their state insurance regulators, but to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. | s*********e
发帖数: 1814 | | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 3 左逼要证明任何错误都是你右派的，要么是白人种族主义，要么是共和党不听指挥，再
不行，还能推给小布什，反正布什不善言辞。
【在 s*********e 的大作中提到】
: 巴马曾经承认过任何错误吗？
: 版上的左逼也一样的
| j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 4 左婢只要意圖“好”就行了。
事成了功勞自己的，玩砸了責任別人的。 |
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