THANKS TO OBAMACARE~
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/11/rise-and-shine-497/
Obamacare Is Already Forcing Private Insurers To Lower Their Premiums
Looks like Obamacare is more “on track” than “train wreck.”
In a striking illustration of the promise that the health law holds for consumers, two Oregon private insurers vying to sell coverage on the state’s Obamacare insurance marketplace this October are reevaluating their opening bids for the plans’ monthly premiums. The reason? A side-by-side regional comparison of all proposed 2014 premiums for Oregon marketplace plans became public on Oregon’s marketplace website Thursday, and showed that the two insurers’ planned monthly premiums were far higher than other proposals. That raised fears among the companies’ officials that their plans wouldn’t be competitive on the market later this year, leading them to proactively request a rate reduction — and as more of Obamacare is implemented, state insurance commissioners expect that trend to continue:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/10/1994331/obamacare-forcing-insurers-lower-premiums/
BOG
FYI: This is posted in the Barack Obama Group
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Obamacare is being revealed to being a good thing for many many people.
No wonder the Insurance companies fought it and the gopricks want to repeal it.
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ACA so that people won't think fondly of Obama.
In about a decade, the GOP will do a 180 and suddenly be supreme defenders of the PPACA - as they're doing with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in order to win elections. 
is going all out...
Colorado Launches $2 Million Public Education Campaign To Spread The Word About Obamacare
With over 40 percent of Americans still unsure whether or not Obamacare is even the law of the land, and an open enrollment period for its statewide insurance exchanges that begins in less than five months, Colorado is pumping $2 million into an outreach effort aimed at preparing consumers for upcoming changes under the health law. This makes Colorado the first state to mount an aggressive push to raise awareness of one of Obamacare’s most important provisions for uninsured individuals and small businesses — although Oregon and Kentucky aren’t far behind with their own PR campaigns planned for next month.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/09/1985901/colorado-obamacare-public-education-campaign/
I don't know what's gotten into Colorado in the last few years but I'm loving my home state's attitude!
Judging by the reaction, there’s already an impact.
Providence Health Plan on Wednesday asked to lower its requested rates by 15 percent. Gary Walker, a Providence spokesman, says the “primary driver” was a realization that the plan’s cost projections were incorrect. But he conceded a desire to be competitive was part of it.
A Family Care Health Plans official on Thursday said the insurer will ask the state for even greater decrease in requested rates. CEO Jeff Heatherington says the company realized its analysts were too pessimistic after seeing online that its proposed premiums were the highest.
“That was my question when I saw the rates was, ‘Can we go in and refile these?’” he said. “We’re going to try to get these to a competitive range.”
Yes yes yes yes yes
Drum roll please
Take that GOP!!!!
How sweet it is , Cha!!!
BOG
Rec + 10000000000000000000000
about this, she!
I was really gratified, too, about this news out of Colorado upthread..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1102&pid=9826
BOG
I forgot to mention Colorado, I saw your post. I love what they are doing!
This is going forward, Cha. At great speed right now. The message is clear...We can do this! The President is pushing this, Colorado is advertising it. People are going to be educated on the facts, not the fiction that the GOP spews.
Action and Awareness. Take it to the people! YES!
to the BOG for bringing this news in front of the cameras so to speak.
BOG
to you, Cha!
I was born and raised in Colorado and when I first got on DU and paid attention to politics.. Colorado had this repub Senator and this other one who was a Dem but switched to Repub.. and a repub Gov! My home state has come so far since then!
BOG
Deal with it!
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Welcome to DU and the BOG!
GOP lies be damned! We are moving FORWARD! Very excited! Thank you, Colorado! Let's spread the word!
... wrote a letter to the editor of our local ragsheet, all terrified that she'd have to drop her additional coverage because her health insurance company had sworn on a stack of bibles that the rates would skyrocket.
When they don't, I hope she can at least admit her error to herself. She would never tell me I was right, that's for sure. And I won't point it out to her or even ask, "How's your insurance coverage lately?" These people have to see for themselves; they're too smart to listen to any little damnedYankee-invader-outside-agitator that ain't nobody and don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'.
Although I do hope some of them suspect just a little why my happy grin broadens by the day. Well, I'd die from shock if anyone ever did approach me and express any regret, so maybe it's just as well they don't. 
brains to be over taken by too much propaganda. That's really sad.. especially with something like Health Care.
Unfortunately, millions of uninsured and under-insured Americans live in places like Florida and Texas, where there is far less sympathy—and a great deal more hostility—to the idea of Obamacare. It’s entirely possible that the insurance bids in those states will be a lot higher, precisely because state officials there are doing nothing to help and quite a bit to hurt implementation. But if that happens, blame won’t belong with the heath care law or the federal officials in charge of its management. It will belong with the state officials who can’t, or won’t, deliver to their constituents the benefits that California’s officials appear to be providing theirs.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113289/obamacare-california-no-sticker-shock-here#
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/print-edition/2013/01/04/2013-executive-peter-lee-covered-cali.html?page=all
h/t http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/25/rise-and-shine-509/
