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It takes him about 30 minutes to drive to oncology appointments now, but the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/07/16/331419293/patients-with-low-cost-insurance-struggle-to-find-specialists\">in-network providers\u003c/a> Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois shows in its directory are farther away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's where the problem came in. Because all of my cancer doctors, and Siteman Cancer Center, are in St. Louis, Missouri,\" Cluck says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cluck, it's a frustrating display of flaws in the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was not supposed to happen,\" he says. \"When they put the Affordable Care Act in place, we were promised we could keep our doctors. We were promised it would cost $2,500 less than what we were currently paying. 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I think this should really be fixing, dismantling--however you want to call it--the Affordable Care Act, I think that needs to really be a priority for the new administration.\" — \u003cem>Durrie Bouscaren, St. Louis Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fears About Losing Insurance Limited Job Options\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leigh Kvetko, 46, of Dallas, has to take 10 medications twice a day because she's had two organ transplants to replace her pancreas and kidney in 2003. Several of the pills she takes cost nearly $1,000 each per month. For years, Kvetko stuck with a job she hated in large part because it offered health insurance. When the Affordable Care Act passed, insurers could no longer discriminate against people like Kvetko, who have diagnosed health problems, and she and her husband finally felt free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gave me hope and [my husband and I] decided to sell our house, to downsize, and to start our own businesses and start a new chapter of our lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this new chapter, Kvetko is retail manager at a busy Dallas coffee shop. She struts through the store in cowboy boots, her long red hair framing green-speckled eyes. She looks happy — and healthy. But her pancreas is failing, and she's terrified about President-elect Trump's promise to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. 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"content": "\u003cp>To the millions of Californians who obtained health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act, know this: Despite the election of Donald Trump, who has promised to repeal the health law, nothing is going to happen to your coverage immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, open enrollment for Covered California plans continues through January 31 despite the election outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t panic. The open enrollment period is set,” says Myles Pappadato, an insurance agent based in Valencia whose firm, \u003ca href=\"http://www.quotebroker.com/\" target=\"_blank\">QuoteBroker\u003c/a>, has about 600 clients with Covered California policies. He fielded about a dozen calls the morning after the election from worried consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t make any decisions based on speculation,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, uncertainty reigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, two major Obamacare initiatives brought health insurance to millions of people: About 1.3 million of you have plans through \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California\u003c/a>, the state health insurance exchange. And about 3.7 million others joined \u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/medi-cal-and-obamacare-more-confusing-twists\" target=\"_blank\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents, after it expanded its eligibility criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress will seek to pick apart Obamacare next year — or how long that could take. An outright repeal \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/repealing-the-affordable-care-act-could-be-more-complicated-than-it-looks/?utm_campaign=CHL%3A+Daily+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=37396635&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9aanSH42gAveSfgTPrn_VrHvjt7rmUC5RKZWxi67PHhBa605aa40A241EiJaXyMHY9KR_ZuAZq2d7AL4vHPFgK1V_4JA&_hsmi=37396635\" target=\"_blank\">might be difficult \u003c/a>because it would require 60 votes in the U.S. Senate to overcome a Democratic filibuster, which means the Republicans would need the support of at least eight Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans could use budget procedures instead to kill critical portions of the law, including the funding for Medicaid expansion in states like California and the federal tax credits that lower premiums for most Covered California enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the subsidies go away, the vast majority of folks are not going to be able to afford their coverage. They’re struggling as it is,” Pappadato says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from Covered California, Medi-Cal and the state Health and Human Services Agency are scrambling to figure out what’s next, but the outlook isn’t good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot provide false comfort,” says Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.health-access.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Access California\u003c/a>. “This is a real risk for coverage that millions of Californians depend on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyn Jutronich, of San Diego, came close to tears when describing the anxiety she felt before Obamacare. Jutronich, 44, has three children under the age of 12 who are now covered by Medi-Cal. She and her husband, a contractor, have a Covered California plan and receive tax credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my child got sick or injured, I used to ask myself, ‘How am I going to pay for this?’ That burden was completely relieved” by Obamacare, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thought of having to go back to that is just shattering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the law, Jutronich went without insurance for more than a year because she had preexisting medical conditions. At that time, insurers were not required to cover people who had previous medical problems, or they could charge them significantly more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The premiums for the family’s insurance — with her included — would have been about $3,000 to $4,000 a month before Obamacare, so they opted to buy a plan for the kids and her husband, because of his dangerous job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m terrified that in the near future I will have to go without insurance again, and that I will again have that horrible ‘Do I really need to take my child to the emergency room today or can it wait?’ question looming in my head,” Jutronich says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California’s executive director, Peter Lee, wants to reassure consumers, saying it’s business as usual for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have some reasonable questions and those questions will take time to answer,” Lee says. “We will be working very hard to get the word out that the subsidies are available and the rules remain in place under the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Health Care Services, which administers Medi-Cal, says “there are no immediate changes” to that program. It did not offer advice to Medi-Cal enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Jen Flory, a senior attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Center on Law & Poverty\u003c/a>, says Medi-Cal expansion enrollees should “feel free to use their Medi-Cal. If they qualify and haven’t applied, they should still apply. No new law has been passed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’ve been waiting to get a medical procedure or delaying an exam, “don’t put anything off,” Flory suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, chair of the \u003ca href=\"http://shea.senate.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Health Committee\u003c/a>, also wants Californians to keep enrolling in the coverage they’re eligible for and using the coverage they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Continue doing what you’ve been doing. You have health insurance. Use it as you need it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez expects California lawmakers to do “everything we can to protect patients to make sure they have access to health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could that include finding state money to replace any federal funding that may be cut?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to ask ourselves the billion-dollar question: Does the state take on that responsibility?” Hernandez says. “That’s a discussion the state Legislature will have to have, but we’re not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright, of Health Access, urges Californians to advocate for themselves in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Until something happens, people should sign up for the benefits and then join the political fight to keep them,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey Kolsin, a certified public accountant in Fountain Valley, agrees that consumers need to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kolsin, 61, and his wife receive tax credits for their Covered California policy, and the cost of their monthly premiums would double if federal funding were cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens to people like myself who have depended on those tax credits, and all of a sudden they’re gone and now you have this huge bill?” he asks. “How do you pay for it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He plans to share his opinion with lawmakers, asking them not to repeal or gut Obamacare without coming up with a replacement plan first. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, two major Obamacare initiatives brought health insurance to millions of people: About 1.3 million of you have plans through \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Covered California\u003c/a>, the state health insurance exchange. And about 3.7 million others joined \u003ca href=\"http://centerforhealthreporting.org/article/medi-cal-and-obamacare-more-confusing-twists\" target=\"_blank\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program for low-income residents, after it expanded its eligibility criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear how Trump and the Republican-dominated Congress will seek to pick apart Obamacare next year — or how long that could take. An outright repeal \u003ca href=\"http://californiahealthline.org/news/repealing-the-affordable-care-act-could-be-more-complicated-than-it-looks/?utm_campaign=CHL%3A+Daily+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=37396635&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9aanSH42gAveSfgTPrn_VrHvjt7rmUC5RKZWxi67PHhBa605aa40A241EiJaXyMHY9KR_ZuAZq2d7AL4vHPFgK1V_4JA&_hsmi=37396635\" target=\"_blank\">might be difficult \u003c/a>because it would require 60 votes in the U.S. Senate to overcome a Democratic filibuster, which means the Republicans would need the support of at least eight Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans could use budget procedures instead to kill critical portions of the law, including the funding for Medicaid expansion in states like California and the federal tax credits that lower premiums for most Covered California enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the subsidies go away, the vast majority of folks are not going to be able to afford their coverage. They’re struggling as it is,” Pappadato says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from Covered California, Medi-Cal and the state Health and Human Services Agency are scrambling to figure out what’s next, but the outlook isn’t good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot provide false comfort,” says Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.health-access.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Access California\u003c/a>. “This is a real risk for coverage that millions of Californians depend on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyn Jutronich, of San Diego, came close to tears when describing the anxiety she felt before Obamacare. Jutronich, 44, has three children under the age of 12 who are now covered by Medi-Cal. She and her husband, a contractor, have a Covered California plan and receive tax credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When my child got sick or injured, I used to ask myself, ‘How am I going to pay for this?’ That burden was completely relieved” by Obamacare, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thought of having to go back to that is just shattering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the law, Jutronich went without insurance for more than a year because she had preexisting medical conditions. 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We all know it,\" Trump \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/10/09/497056227/fact-check-clinton-and-trump-debate-for-the-second-time\" target=\"_blank\">said at a debate\u003c/a> last month. \"We have to repeal it and replace it with something absolutely much less expensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that Trump will move into the Oval Office in January, the question is whether he'll be able to completely repeal the six-year-old law that has had an impact on every aspect of the U.S. health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a challenge for a Trump presidency,\" says\u003ca href=\"http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/jfh7/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jack Hoadley\u003c/a>, a research professor at Georgetown University's \u003ca href=\"https://hpi.georgetown.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Policy Institute\u003c/a>. \"To get a true repeal and replace through, he needs 60 votes in the Senate.\" That's the minimum number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Repeal of the law is absolutely going to come up, and the only potential defense against that would be a Democratic filibuster — if Republicans even allow a filibuster,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/about/about-austin/\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Frakt\u003c/a>, a health economist who runs the blog \u003ca href=\"http://theincidentaleconomist.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Incidental Economist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Trump can't repeal the Affordable Care Act in its entirety, there's a lot he can do through rule-making and smaller legislative changes to weaken the law and mold it more to his liking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are probably, practically speaking, talking about leaving the ACA, as is, in place,\" Hoadley says. \"Then he can change the ACA to have it showcase the kinds of plans he wants to see in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, Trump proposed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500371785/platform-check-trump-and-clinton-on-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">series of measures\u003c/a> that he said will allow people to buy affordable health insurance policies outside of the Obamacare exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those measures include promoting tax-free health savings accounts that might help individuals save money to pay for health care costs and allowing people to deduct the cost of their premiums on their personal income tax returns. Trump has said he also wants to allow insurers to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122965862\" target=\"_blank\">sell policies across state lines\u003c/a> to boost competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump could alter the Obamacare exchanges to promote high-deductible health plans and health savings accounts to get a result similar to what he's looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He could change the details of how the marketplaces work,\" Hoadley says. \"It's all worked out through regulation. You could just suspend the regulations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternatively, Trump could embrace the \u003ca href=\"http://abetterway.speaker.gov/?page=health-care\" target=\"_blank\">health care plan\u003c/a> promoted by House Speaker Paul Ryan, which starts with repealing the Affordable Care Act. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the discussion surrounding a public option, however, has focused on a nationwide plan, not one emanating from a state. In July, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she would “pursue efforts to give Americans in every state in the country the choice of a public-option insurance plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones offered few specifics on what a public option might look like in the Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to begin to prejudge it,” said Jones, an elected Democrat serving his second term as head of the state Department of Insurance, one of two insurance regulators in California. “I don’t know whether you would start in certain areas of the state and expand from there. I think there would be significant reservations about the state running it. 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Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina), chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said a public option could make sense in some underserved areas. But he said it may not address the problem of large health systems dictating high prices, and it could interfere with the progress made by the Covered California insurance exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California said 7.4 percent of its 1.4 million enrollees will only have two health plans to choose from for 2017. The state’s biggest markets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orange County all feature six to seven insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if a public option will create a lower price [for] the consumer,” Hernandez said. “Covered California has done a good job of keeping rates fairly stable and it has enough plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurers agreed. “Covered California has arguably one of the strongest and most stable exchanges in the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rising drug costs are often blamed for driving up health insurance premiums, but a major consumer group says the numbers don’t add up — at least in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advocacy group Consumers Union says two of California's largest insurers may be exploiting the outrage over high drug prices to artificially inflate their premiums for individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are independently examining the issue and pressing both Anthem Inc. and Blue Shield of California to justify their rate hikes of nearly 20 percent before open enrollment this fall. Together, the insurers cover more than half of enrollees in the state’s insurance exchange, Covered California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the uproar over expensive hepatitis C pills and, more recently, the $600 price tag for EpiPens, the growth in spending on prescription drugs has been slowing. 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(The Consumers Union comments are included in rate filing documents \u003ca href=\"http://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/RateReview/Detail.aspx?lrh=XbZWkzRmrkA%24\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/RateReview/Detail.aspx?lrh=0QtDat9Z%2fL8%24\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, the managed care agency has requested more information from both companies ahead of an Oct. 3 deadline to finish its review into whether their premium increases are reasonable. Blue Shield has proposed an average 19.4 percent increase for about 550,000 individual policyholders, both in the Covered California exchange and outside the marketplace. 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HMO giant Kaiser Permanente predicts a 6 percent increase in drug costs next year and Health Net Inc. estimated 11 percent. Consumers Union asked regulators to seek a detailed justification for Health Net’s average rate increase of 9.4 percent as well, \u003ca href=\"http://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/RateReview/Detail.aspx?lrh=bSEB7eCDslo%24\" target=\"_blank\">documents\u003c/a> show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Other state exchanges are facing even steeper rate hikes, approaching 60 percent from some major insurers reporting heavy losses under the health law. Consumers Union said the questionable data it found in California may apply to insurers elsewhere and it urges all regulators to conduct a thorough review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it’s likely happening across the country with insurers using this as an opportunity to raise rates more than they should,” Mendelsohn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many health insurers insist their losses in the individual market are substantial and higher rates are necessary to make the Obamacare marketplaces sustainable for the long term. In crafting 2017 rates, insurers said they had the benefit of detailed data on exchange customers for the first time, and it showed they had underpriced the coverage compared to the services used by members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug costs are just one factor pushing up premiums. Another is the discontinuation of a federal reinsurance program later this year that helps insurers with large claims. Also, many companies have complained about higher than expected costs for people who sign up outside the regular open enrollment period, citing special circumstances such as a job loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal data and several industry reports suggest that drug costs are leveling off nationwide after a spike from several high-priced hepatitis C medications bursting on the market. Prescription drug spending grew 3.9 percent for the past 12 months through July, according to the Altarum Institute. That’s down from 8.5 percent for the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a moderation of the cost trend,” said Barbara Gniewek, a partner and health benefits expert at consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. “The hepatitis C drugs were a tsunami and really caught people off guard. 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"content": "\u003cp>Health insurers are gearing up to comply with a new Covered California rule that will require them next year to ensure that all enrollees have a primary care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You need a captain of the ship.'\u003ccite> Lance Lang, chief medical officer of Covered California \u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The policy change for 2017 is part of a broader push by the exchange to improve the quality of care, even as it faces double-digit premium increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health insurers selling through Covered California will designate a family doctor — or in some cases a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant — for every plan holder who doesn’t already have one within 60 days of the coverage start date. 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And so having one primary care provider be your sort of gatekeeper and your focal point makes sense,” Joyce said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lang said that Covered California is moving away from a “fragmented, disorganized, wild west” kind of care but is not trying to steer consumers away from PPOs and into HMOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Primary care relationships can simply help avoid unnecessary medical costs, Lang said, because a family doctor can prevent duplication of tests and other services and make it less likely a patient will be readmitted to a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new primary care requirement is part of a series of new measures meant to improve the quality of care in Covered California health plans. The exchange’s board of directors recently approved rules that include penalizing hospitals financially for underperforming and even removing them — or doctors — from health insurance networks if they perform too poorly or charge too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health plans will also be required to share data about chronic diseases among their patients and work to reduce health disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California’s health plan premiums will increase by an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/07/18/why-obamacare-covered-california-premiums-going-up/\" target=\"_blank\">average of 13.2 percent statewide\u003c/a> next year, but Lang said rising costs are not the impetus for the policy change on primary care. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 2:30 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California, the state's Obamacare marketplace, released proposed 2017 premiums Tuesday morning, and the average statewide increase will be 13.2 percent, more than triple the increase seen each of the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Lee, the agency's executive director, cited several factors as drivers in this year's spike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notable is an expiring federal \"reinsurance\" program, created as part of the Affordable Care Act, to spread the risk of so many newly insured people entering the risk pool. Actuarial experts estimate that alone adds 4 to 7 percent to premiums, but it's viewed as a one-time effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rising health care costs, including specialty prescription drugs, are also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee stressed that most people could reduce their own individual increase by shopping around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Almost 80 percent of our customers could either pay less than they are paying today or pay no more than [a] 5 percent increase,\" Lee said, if they comparison shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, agreed there may be \"deals to be had.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market is still working much better in California than in most other states,\" he said. \"It’s quite competitive in giving consumers a large number of choices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1.4 million Californians purchase their health insurance through the Covered California exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue Shield and Anthem Blue Cross customers will face the steepest increases. They have about \"a quarter of the market each,\" Lee said. Anthem customers will see a statewide average increase of 16 percent, and Blue Shield is \"above 19 percent,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, those increases will be even steeper for Anthem and Blue Shield customers. Meanwhile, the average monthly premium hike for Kaiser members will be in the 5-6 percent range across much of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are committed to offering stable rates over the long term,\" said Bill Wehrle, a vice president at Kaiser Permanente, \"and are uniquely positioned to deliver more affordable health care coverage.\" He cited investments in technology and Kaiser's \"emphasis on wellness\" as factors keeping premium increases lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the proposed rate increases for major plans in several Bay Area counties:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAverage increase: 14.8 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser: 5.3 percent\u003cbr>\nAnthem Blue Cross: 16.7 percent\u003cbr>\nBlue Shield: 24.2 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAverage increase: 13.6 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser: 5.6 percent\u003cbr>\nAnthem Blue Cross: 22.6 percent\u003cbr>\nBlue Shield: 24.4 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAverage increase: 12.3 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser: 5.6 percent\u003cbr>\nAnthem Blue Cross: 23.7 percent\u003cbr>\nBlue Shield: 18.9 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAverage increase: 9.2 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser: 5.6 percent\u003cbr>\nAnthem Blue Cross (EPO): 8.4 percent\u003cbr>\nBlue Shield: 22.3 percent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can look up the proposed rate for your plan in your specific area by checking Covered California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/news/pdfs/CoveredCA-2017-rate-booklet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">rate booklet.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rates are not yet final. State regulators will review them in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Obamacare customers can expect a hefty increase in their monthly health insurance premiums next year. Covered California will announce new 2017 rates Tuesday morning for people who buy their plan through the state marketplace, and experts are predicting that increases will be double or even triple what they were last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/274403157\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2017 is going to be a transition year,” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, testifying before Congress last week. “We expect our rates to be higher than we saw in our first two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/31/californias-2015-obamacare-premiums-will-increase-modestly/\" target=\"_blank\">2015\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/07/27/covered-california-2016-premiums-to-increase-modestly/\" target=\"_blank\">2016\u003c/a>, marketplace premiums increased an average of 4 percent -- a rate celebrated by consumer advocates as “modest,” even “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/07/27/covered-california-2016-premiums-to-increase-modestly/\">terrific\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California’s proposed budget for 2017, released in May, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/05/11/californias-obamacare-premiums-may-rise-8-percent-next-year/\" target=\"_blank\">projected average rate increases of 8 percent\u003c/a>. Industry insiders are suggesting the average jump could be even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three key reasons why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One: Medical Costs are Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies say premium prices are going up because medical costs are going up. Doctors, hospitals, labs and pharmaceutical companies are all raising their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unquestionably, runaway drug prices remain a serious problem,” said Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, a trade group for insurers. “We’re seeing new drugs coming out with blockbuster prices, and we’ve seen drugs that have been around for 30 years double and triple in price for no reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern Californians have felt the burden of higher medical costs more so than people in Southern California because the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/12/03/why-health-insurance-in-the-bay-area-costs-more-than-in-southern-california-hospital-prices/\" target=\"_blank\">hospital market is more consolidated\u003c/a>, giving hospitals more bargaining power with insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early rate filings from other states indicate rising medical costs could contribute to premium increases anywhere from 3 to 9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulators will have a chance to review the proposed rate increases, and consumer advocacy groups say they look forward to participating in the process by challenging some of the assumptions health plans have made about costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the extent insurers are booking a certain amount of medical inflation to prescription drugs, are they overestimating those costs?\" said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access. \"Is that a scapegoat or a true driver?*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two: Federal Protections are Expiring\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Affordable Care Act established a “reinsurance” program that was designed to help insurance companies cover losses if they had a high proportion of really sick, expensive patients. 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State regulators will review them in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Obamacare customers can expect a hefty increase in their monthly health insurance premiums next year. Covered California will announce new 2017 rates Tuesday morning for people who buy their plan through the state marketplace, and experts are predicting that increases will be double or even triple what they were last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/274403157&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/274403157'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2017 is going to be a transition year,” said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, testifying before Congress last week. “We expect our rates to be higher than we saw in our first two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/07/31/californias-2015-obamacare-premiums-will-increase-modestly/\" target=\"_blank\">2015\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/07/27/covered-california-2016-premiums-to-increase-modestly/\" target=\"_blank\">2016\u003c/a>, marketplace premiums increased an average of 4 percent -- a rate celebrated by consumer advocates as “modest,” even “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/07/27/covered-california-2016-premiums-to-increase-modestly/\">terrific\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California’s proposed budget for 2017, released in May, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/05/11/californias-obamacare-premiums-may-rise-8-percent-next-year/\" target=\"_blank\">projected average rate increases of 8 percent\u003c/a>. 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Doctors, hospitals, labs and pharmaceutical companies are all raising their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unquestionably, runaway drug prices remain a serious problem,” said Charles Bacchi, president and CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, a trade group for insurers. “We’re seeing new drugs coming out with blockbuster prices, and we’ve seen drugs that have been around for 30 years double and triple in price for no reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern Californians have felt the burden of higher medical costs more so than people in Southern California because the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/12/03/why-health-insurance-in-the-bay-area-costs-more-than-in-southern-california-hospital-prices/\" target=\"_blank\">hospital market is more consolidated\u003c/a>, giving hospitals more bargaining power with insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early rate filings from other states indicate rising medical costs could contribute to premium increases anywhere from 3 to 9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California regulators will have a chance to review the proposed rate increases, and consumer advocacy groups say they look forward to participating in the process by challenging some of the assumptions health plans have made about costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To the extent insurers are booking a certain amount of medical inflation to prescription drugs, are they overestimating those costs?\" said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access. \"Is that a scapegoat or a true driver?*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Two: Federal Protections are Expiring\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Affordable Care Act established a “reinsurance” program that was designed to help insurance companies cover losses if they had a high proportion of really sick, expensive patients. 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"content": "\u003cp>When it comes to the issue of religious rights versus no-cost contraception, the only thing the Supreme Court could agree on was not to decide the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-1418_8758.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">unsigned opinion\u003c/a> issued Monday, the court sent a series of cases back to a raft of federal appeals courts, with instructions for those courts and the parties in the lawsuits to try harder to work things out. “The Court expresses no view on the merits of the cases,” the opinion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is the extent to which religiously affiliated employers (such as universities or hospitals) need to participate in the requirement under the Affordable Care Act for most employer health plans to\u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/news/supreme-court-takes-up-birth-control-access-again/\" target=\"_blank\"> provide no-cost contraception for women.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government made \u003ca href=\"http://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2014/08/22/administration-takes-steps-to-ensure-womens-continued-access-to-contraception-coverage.html\" target=\"_blank\">several changes to the rules\u003c/a> over the past four years in an attempt to accommodate the religious employers’ objections while still ensuring that female employees would get contraceptive coverage. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.becketfund.org/hhsinformationcentral/\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of religious nonprofit employers sued anyway\u003c/a>, claiming that even the act of notifying the government of their objections (which would, in turn, trigger a requirement for the government to arrange coverage) made them “complicit” in providing a service they see as sinful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court’s opinion, and an \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/051616zor1_g31h.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">accompanying order\u003c/a> on several similar cases that were awaiting a decision on whether the high court would take them up, erased all the lower appeals court rulings, all but one of which had sided with the government. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s health insurance exchange estimates that its Obamacare premiums may rise 8 percent on average next year, which would end two consecutive years of more modest 4 percent increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Final rates won’t be known until July after Covered California conducts private negotiations with health plans\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The projected rate increase in California, included in the \u003ca href=\"http://board.coveredca.com/meetings/2016/5-12/2016-17-CoveredCA-Proposed-Budget.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">exchange’s proposed annual budget\u003c/a>, comes amid growing nationwide concern about insurers seeking double-digit premium hikes in the health law’s insurance marketplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any increases in California, a closely watched state in the health law rollout, are sure to draw intense scrutiny during a presidential election. 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But we believe in California we won’t see the significant headwinds many other states are experiencing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Xh5FmUmlPmuJ7DvqU73CGLqck09caN8t\"]Lee said the expiration this year of two federal programs that have helped health insurers offset expensive medical claims and cover sick patients in general will affect premium rates across the country. In addition, he cited ever-increasing medical costs, particularly for expensive specialty drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, already has said it will exit all but a handful of state exchanges after suffering substantial losses on individual policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee declined to comment on whether UnitedHealth has submitted a bid to continue selling in Covered California next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health-policy experts said the California rate projection mirrors an upward trend around the country as health insurers reassess their pricing and strategy under Obamacare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us should be surprised to see average rate increases that are slightly higher than last year,” said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. “It’s still really difficult to discern where we will end up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Laszewski, a health care consultant in Alexandria, Virginia, and a frequent critic of Covered California, said Californians will be fortunate if the 8 percent projection holds up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not a troubling rate increase,” he said. “California is coming back toward the average. 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