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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Pennsylvania's Largest Obamacare Insurer Hiking Premiums

Now Pennsylvania’s largest health insurer is reporting that it’s hiking premiums for individual Obamacare policies by double digits in 2015.

Highmark Inc., Pennsylvania’s Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer, is requesting to increase its prices for 180,000 people in the fall. They’ve requested increases of between 13.4 percent and 15 percent, according to Pennsylvania’s Trib Live. (RELATED: Biggest North Carolina Insurer Ups Obamacare Premiums By Double-Digits)

The Pennsylvania state insurance department reviews health insurance rate increases above 10 percent. So far, Geisinger Health is looking to hike prices between 14.8 percent and 19.4 percent and Independence Blue Cross is asking for a 14.9 percent boost. Aetna and UPMC Helath Plan do not have any public filings.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When Obama added 100,000 government administrators to the healthcare system. what other alternative is there?

You Democrats can thank Pelosi, Reid, and all the rest of your "pass it to see what is in it" idiots.

Anonymous said...

It's not just Obamacare policies. We have an Aetna policy through the company we work for and ours is going up double digits too!
Until the government reigns in the insurance companies, this is just going to continue.
I don't think it has anything to do with Obamacare and it's all to do with letting the ins. companies run wild and do whatever they want.