{"id":8505,"date":"2017-11-04T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2017-11-03T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:02:45","slug":"big-premium-hike-blame-it-on-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Big Premium Hike? Blame It On The Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Courtney Perkes for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Dede Kennedy-Simington, an insurance agent in Pasadena, Calif., was \u201ctotally dismayed\u201d when she learned recently that the premium on her family\u2019s Blue Shield PPO\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #35485d; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/10\/personal-rate-increase.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would rise $391 a month next year<\/a><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">\u00a0\u2014 driven largely by huge increases for her two teenage children. <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/big-premium-hike-blame-it-on-the-kids\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=58052537&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--F-wlo2qSgQr9-qAYtfPRuFMxx3282b8NI9qpgpRJSAbu5BbFlWy9yS81OwwxPiP_1b70SYEubUemOtPMuHuLuNzi64A&amp;_hsmi=58052537\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation<\/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: normal; 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;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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