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To: i-node who wrote (780639)	4/19/2014 12:49:49 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1583499

Tell the LA voters.

To: i-node who wrote (780639)	4/19/2014 12:50:11 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583499

Good News for Obamacare Is Bad News for Conservative Pundits The warnings that insurance premiums will skyrocket next year look increasingly hyperbolic. nationaljournal.com "Conservatives were sure at every turn that Obamacare would fail, but as the numbers roll in, those convictions are looking increasingly ideological. First they said nobody would enroll. Then they said first-year premiums would be through the roof. And later, they warned of a "death spiral," wherein premiums would go up uncontrollably. My colleague Sam Baker has written an excellent analysis of the situation, the upshot of which is that Obamacare is on a winning streak. The next great frontier of conservative hyperbole concerns premiums for 2015, with critics warning that costs will double or even triple next year. As of this week, we have good evidence to the contrary. Health insurance premium rates are expected go up just 7 percent—a rate of increase much lower than what critics were predicting. And the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is predicting that premium hikes will be relatively modest. "The double-rate increases we've been hearing are probably exaggerated," Dave Axene, a fellow with the Society of Actuaries, told USA Today. "That's not what we're seeing from the actuarial organizations—I guess we're being a little bit more optimistic." "A little bit more optimistic" is something of an understatement. For weeks, pundits have been spouting apocalyptic notions about the costs of insurance premiums, warning Americans that "the worst is yet to come."...