Lefty HuffPo: ‘Serious People’ Agree Major Obamacare Hikes Possible
By Joseph Rossell, June 2, 2015, Newsbusters
he liberal website The Huffington Post, which once advised readers on how to avoid talking about Obamacare during Thanksgiving dinner, surprisingly confronted a serious problem for the Affordable Care Act recently. On June 1, HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps and Huffington Post senior national correspondent Jonathan Cohn talked about the unaffordability of Obamacare. In the segment, "What If The Affordable Care Act Isn't Affordable?," Cohn admitted that "rate increases look higher" for 2016 than in previous years, based on proposals that insurers were required to submit to the government by June 1.
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By Joseph Rossell, June 2, 2015, Newsbusters
he liberal website The Huffington Post, which once advised readers on how to avoid talking about Obamacare during Thanksgiving dinner, surprisingly confronted a serious problem for the Affordable Care Act recently. On June 1, HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps and Huffington Post senior national correspondent Jonathan Cohn talked about the unaffordability of Obamacare. In the segment, "What If The Affordable Care Act Isn't Affordable?," Cohn admitted that "rate increases look higher" for 2016 than in previous years, based on proposals that insurers were required to submit to the government by June 1.
Companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico reportedly want to increase their premiums by as much as 50 percent. "It’s not clear, you know, where we’re going to end up," Cohn said. "But there are hints of it [substantially higher rates], enough that I think serious people are looking at this and saying, 'Yeah, that might be the case.'"
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