{"id":11728,"date":"2018-10-12T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:19:17","slug":"obamacare-premiums-dip-for-first-time-some-call-it-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11728","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Premiums Dip For First Time. Some Call It A Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz and Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>After two years of double-digit price hikes, the average premium for individual health coverage on the federal health law\u2019s insurance marketplace will drop by 1.5 percent for 2019, the Trump administration said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0announcement\u00a0 marked the first time average premiums have fallen since the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act went into effect in 2014. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/obamacare-premiums-dip-for-first-time-some-call-it-a-correction\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66635101&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Iu7m3fzewRiUNO_gHK28T5a0F88selwFahTHBraaRuD6rBwo9lRJd0bvfeocRaBMCcqXDYstODcOJ6fpzjRjL-vDjqQ&amp;_hsmi=66635101\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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