Those
figures refer to job-based health insurance, so prices are different than the
cost of individual coverage available via Obamacare's health insurance
exchanges, which are for people who don't get coverage from employers.
Comprehensive data on the individual market are harder to come by, but a report
from online insurance broker eHealth about the products they provide shows rate increases are
the norm for these plans, too.
The
average premium for an individual rose 32 percent between 2005
and 2012, according to the company's report.
Here,
the newspaper appears to take President Barack Obama's administration to task
for not believing something it never claimed to believe in the first place:
That, within the remarkably short period of 24 months, decades of health
insurance rate hikes would suddenly reverse themselves.
And
here's how the Daily Mail characterized
the Health and Human Services secretary's banal statement: "Sebelius
admits Obamacare will raise health insurance premiums in 2015."
Granted,
Obama and his deputies shoulder blame for making it easy for people to believe
that acknowledging something as obvious as increasing health insurance premiums
constitutes news.
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