Covered California Health Plan Rates To Jump 13.2 Percent In 2017

(By Chad Terhune and Pauline Bartolone for Kaiser Health News)

California’s Obamacare premiums will jump 13.2 percent on average next year, a sharp increase that is likely to reverberate nationwide in an election year.

The increase, announced by the Covered California exchange Tuesday, ends the state’s two-year respite from double-digit rate hikes. Read article here……

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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