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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1216501" data-attributes="member: 40736">Also:<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/another-angle-on-the-story" target="_blank">Another Angle on the Story</a>At the end of the day, Obamacare has a price correcting mechanism, that&nbsp; NONE of the defenders of the law are even mentioning.&nbsp; If the rates&nbsp; charged for plans as of 1/1/2014 are indeed too high and the plans are&nbsp; not being used at that level, then all of the insureds will get a nice&nbsp; fat check in the mail come 2015.&nbsp; Given the incentives that insurance&nbsp; companies have to overprice today (little actual experience with the&nbsp; projected people insured under the new plans), this may very well mean a&nbsp; much larger check when they are calculated and distributed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Alternatively, if indeed the plans do incur 80% or more of their&nbsp; premiums being used to pay claims, then the plans have done what they&nbsp; were intended to do....provide insurance protection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1216501, member: 40736"] Also: [url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/another-angle-on-the-story]Another Angle on the Story[/url] [I]At the end of the day, Obamacare has a price correcting mechanism, that NONE of the defenders of the law are even mentioning. If the rates charged for plans as of 1/1/2014 are indeed too high and the plans are not being used at that level, then all of the insureds will get a nice fat check in the mail come 2015. Given the incentives that insurance companies have to overprice today (little actual experience with the projected people insured under the new plans), this may very well mean a much larger check when they are calculated and distributed. Alternatively, if indeed the plans do incur 80% or more of their premiums being used to pay claims, then the plans have done what they were intended to do....provide insurance protection.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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