{"id":40252,"date":"2013-09-26T16:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_the_affordable_care_acts_3000_health-law_premiums_test_limits_of_\/"},"modified":"2013-09-26T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:28:55","slug":"bloomberg_the_affordable_care_acts_3000_health-law_premiums_test_limits_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40252","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) The Affordable Care Act&#39;s $3,000 Health-Law Premiums Test Limits of Affordability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance under Obamacare will cost individuals at least $2,988 a year on average, a price that Republican opponents may target as out-of-reach for many Americans who don\u2019t qualify for U.S. subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>While the $249 monthly payment is intended to be discounted through tax credits, less than half of people now buying insurance on their own may get that help&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The law\u2019s long-term success \u201cwill depend on the changes that are made over the next couple of years to address the affordability issue,\u201d\u009d said Brian Wright, an insurance analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt &#038; Co. in New York. \u201cIf you have modifications that can help address those issues, then it will ultimately be successful. If not, then it\u2019s an open question.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-09-25\/obama-pulls-back-curtain-on-health-law-to-reveal-rates.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance under Obamacare will cost individuals at least $2,988 a year on average, a price that Republican opponents may target as out-of-reach for many Americans who don\u2019t qualify for U.S. subsidies. While the $249 monthly payment is intended to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40252\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,582,149,104,114,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}