Health exchange premiums will drop
By Michaela Gibson Morris, Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo | |
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Premiums for
"We've had a year to see how it works," Dees said, noting the insurer met the percentages required by federal law. "Our rates are coming down a little bit."
At the conference, Dees painted a picture of
The bulk of the Magnolia enrollees in 2014 picked silver plans, which are designed to cover 70 percent of health care costs, Dees said. Silver-level plans also offer additional cost-sharing assistance for families between 100 and 250 percent of the federal poverty line. A large percentage were uninsured.
The biggest expenses for the health insurance plan were medications for treating diabetes and hypertension, followed by antiviral medications to treat HIV and Hepatitis C.
In 2015, only five
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