WSJ on 2017 Obamacare Rate Proposals

Incredibly incorrect, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. They put the benchmark silver plan increases in major cities in all 50 states at 3.6%. Before tax credits, so that for about 80% of enrollees, it wasn't even a speed bump.

Your study cherry picks the data to major cities, My study includes all states. Even if your data is correct we were promised a cut; instead it goes up every year

So you're claiming that Koch Industries is fair and balanced, the Kaiser Family Foundation is biased, and DonDiego has integrity.

Good luck with that.

Just a reminder, . . .

This thread addresses "proposed" premium increases as submitted by "big insurers" to various States, as published by The Wall Street Journal.
[Poor old DonDiego has added the WSJ link to the original post, as he should have done originally.]

It has nothing to do with Koch Industries. DonDiego, nonetheless, suggests if anyone disagrees with the Freedom Partners' analysis, they would improve their own prestige by providing more accurate data instead of carping about Koch Industries.

How bout we just point to the same thread you started last year as proof of how accurate "proposals" are vs "actuals"

Never mind.

Another one bites the dust.

"A nonprofit health insurer in Ohio set up under ObamaCare is going out of business, regulators announced Thursday. It is the latest in a string of failures for 'co-op' health plans.
The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that the co-op, known as InHealth Mutual, will be shut down, forcing its nearly 22,000 enrollees to find other plans within the next 60 days.

Many of the [nationwide] co-ops have gone out of business. Just 10 of the original 23 will now remain.

Republicans have questioned how much of the $2.4 billion in government loans to the co-ops will actually be repaid, given that many of them have failed."

Ref: The Hill

Hmm, . . . how much of the $2.4 billion in government loans to the co-ops will actually be repaid . . .
DonDiego thinks he knows the answer.

I have yet to see pj & friends show a single study where people got their promised reduction in premiums.

I never started a thread on this board with any such prediction so i dont know what you are trying to hold me accountable for.

But this same thread was started last year with the same outrageous proposals that turned out to be useless in their ability to predict actual premium increases. I would be embarrasssed to double down on that same data this year...but thats just me.