{"id":21692,"date":"2014-10-21T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21692"},"modified":"2014-10-21T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:50:54","slug":"report-without-subsidies-obamacare-enrollment-in-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21692\/report-without-subsidies-obamacare-enrollment-in-death-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Without Subsidies, ObamaCare Enrollment in Death Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout [ObamaCare\u2019s] premium support, premiums rise by nearly 45 percent, and enrollment falls by nearly 70 percent,\u201d says a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR708.html \" target=\"_blank\">RAND Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis is part of an evaluation commissioned by the federal <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/10\/21\/hhs-funded-study-obamacare-will-suffer-death-spiral-if-subsidies-fail\/?advD=1248,102535\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Health and Human Services<\/a> (HHS), the agency in charge of ObamaCare implementation.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s publication follows on news that a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/2333-new-fed-court-strikes-down-key-obamacare-subsidy \" target=\"_blank\">federal district judge<\/a> in Oklahoma ruled ObamaCare\u2019s premium support (i.e. subsidies) mechanism is not available in states that use Healthcare.gov, the federal ObamaCare exchange. According to the text of the law, eligibility for subsidies depends on a citizen\u2019s state operating its own exchange. If the law\u2019s plain meaning is followed, RAND\u2019s analysis will apply to citizens in more than half of the states.<\/p>\n<p>The RAND Health report confirms a simple truth about ObamaCare \u2013 if people must pay the full freight of its \u201caffordable\u201d insurance, they will refuse.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: The Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithout [ObamaCare\u2019s] premium support, premiums rise by nearly 45 percent, and enrollment falls by nearly 70 percent,\u201d says a report by RAND Health. The analysis is part of an evaluation commissioned by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency in charge of ObamaCare implementation. The report\u2019s publication follows on news that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,3308,1829,35,4350,2249,105],"class_list":["post-21692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-oklahoma","tag-subsidy","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21699,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions\/21699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}