Feds outline health insurance savings [Missoulian (MT)]
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"We can't tell you (the effects), because (insurers) are not filing that information with this office," she said in an interview. "It's unfortunate."
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"Anything that came into our committee that deal with (ACA), we looked at it very carefully, considering what it would do for our small businesses," she said. "We were very hesitant of putting any kind of stamp (of approval) on it, because we didn't know what the far-reaching consequences would be."
In a telephone news conference Tuesday,
HHS said the 80 percent law led to
HHS also estimated the new rate-review of health insurance premiums saved consumers
"In far too many states, people felt like they had nowhere to turn when insurers hiked their rates," Sebelius said. "One of the big changes under the Affordable Care Act is that insurers are now finally being held accountable."
Still, an independent health-research group Tuesday reported that employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased 4 percent last year, or higher than inflation, and about 14 percent in the past two years, since the ACA passed.
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Lindeen said HHS declared that an 18 percent increase for some
In
Lindeen told a legislative panel Tuesday morning that if she's re-elected as state auditor this year, she plans to ask the 2013 Legislature again to give her office authority to review health-insurance premium rates and rate increases.
Lindeen, a Democrat, is being challenged by Republican state Rep.
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