Why Are Health Insurance Premiums Still Increasing After The PPACA?

Why Are Health Insurance Premiums Still Increasing After The PPACA?

There are 5 primary reasons why health insurance premiums have already increased and will continue to increase since the passage of the PPACA. And, why insurers like Aetna are expecting some premiums to double after 2014.




1) My Blue Cross Group clients have received policy renewal rate increases since the passage of the PPACA of up to 46% for the first time in 17 years. See just a few of them here. Their prior premium increases were nothing near this amount. This is not isolated to Blue Cross either. These premium increases are happening in many markets across the United States in both the Individual and Group health insurance markets. Even though Barack Obama promised “my health care plan will save the average family $2,500 on their premium.”


And then their was this quote from Barack Obama: “It’s estimated that your employer’s premiums will fall by as much as 3,000% which means they could give you a raise.”


These premium increases are due in large part to the fact that multiple new “Preventative Care” mandates were imposed upon all “non-grandfathered” health insurance plans as of 9/23/2010 under the PPACA (Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act). A “Non-grandfathered” health insurance plan is a plan that was purchased after the PPACA (a.k.a “Obamacare”) was signed in to law on March 23, 2010. Keep in mind, these were ALL mandated to be covered no later than 1/1/2011 WITHOUT a co pay or a DEDUCTIBLE (a.k.a. “free”). The entire list is as follows: