{"id":1011,"date":"2015-10-27T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2015-10-27T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T13:21:52","slug":"premiums-for-key-marketplace-silver-plans-rising-an-average-of-7-5-percent-hhs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Premiums For Key Marketplace Silver Plans Rising An Average Of 7.5 Percent, HHS Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Mary Agnes Carey and Jordan Rau, Kaiser health News)<\/p>\n<p>Premiums\u00a0will increase an average of 7.5 percent\u00a0for the second-lowest-cost silver insurance plan to be offered next year in the\u00a037 states where the federal government operates health marketplaces, according to\u00a0an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Newsroom\/MediaReleaseDatabase\/Fact-sheets\/2015-Fact-sheets-items\/2015-10-26-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>The HHS report, released late Monday, focuses on the monthly premiums for the second-lowest silver plan, also called the\u00a0benchmark, which is used by the Internal Revenue Service to calculate\u00a0tax credits to help pay for the premiums. The credits are available to people with incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty line ($11,770 to $47,080 for an individual)\u00a0who purchase coverage on the federal or state-based online marketplaces, or exchanges. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/premiums-for-key-marketplace-silver-plans-rising-an-average-of-7-5-percent-hhs-says\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=23183372&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8sjwjm-D37kEun71NpJ3_f4O0carfM6c1GuDdklLO8khrsXERsZLxUbvKnnxczvfnUE1NPIwWgs_KWBvWEanM6VQo-xw&amp;_hsmi=23183372\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<pre><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Mary Agnes Carey and Jordan Rau, Kaiser health News) Premiums\u00a0will increase an average of 7.5 percent\u00a0for the second-lowest-cost silver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}