Too Bad That My Prediction is Coming True.
Health Insurance Premiums Rise Nationwide. NBC Nightly News (1/8, story 7, 2:20, Williams) reported, "Now to an unwelcome surprise for millions of Americans this new year, health insurance premiums that are causing sticker shock, double-digit increases in some places, suddenly a whole lot of families are watching this happen in the era of the so-called Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare." NBC (Myers) added, "Some insurance companies in California including Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna and Blue Shield of California are proposing rate increases of 20% or more for some individual customers. ... And it's not just California. In Florida and Ohio, insurers have instituted double-digit rate increases. New York, which unlike California has power to roll back rates, has generally held increases below 10%. Overall, medical costs are projected to rise only 7.5% this year, so some experts are puzzled by the double-digit premium increases, and question whether it has something to do with the Obamacare law, which will bring big changes next year."