What will your Obamacare premium be? Numbers are in for 17 states (lower than CBO anticipated)

[underpants]

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So far, premiums are coming in a bit lower than was anticipated by the Congressional Budget Office, according to a new report. That doesn’t mean Obamacare is cheap, but worries about massive cost spikes may be overblown.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0905/What-will-your-Obamacare-premium-be-Numbers-are-in-for-17-states.-video
September 5, 2013


But the Kaiser Family Foundation weighed in Thursday with a report on some 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that have unveiled their pricing.

The report concludes that, from the numbers that are in so far, premiums are coming in a bit lower than was anticipated by the Congressional Budget Office. That doesn’t mean health care under the Obama reforms is cheap, but worries about massive cost spikes may be.

“While premiums will vary significantly across the country, they are generally lower than expected,” the authors of the Kaiser report write. “For example, we estimate that the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office imply that the premium for a 40-year-old in the second lowest cost silver plan would average $320 per month nationally. Fifteen of the eighteen rating areas we examined have premiums below this level….”

[NYC_SKP]

1. I'll be paying half what I pay now for COBRA, with better coverage.

I'm pretty sure of this.

[area51]

2. Just think of how low the premium would be

If we had single-payer or a public option.

[Carolina]

3. Exactly

and imagine if BHO had fought for the public option as aggressively as he is pushing for bombing Syria!