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‘This is gambling’: Rising ACA premiums push Americans to riskier, no-frills health plans
WHEN MELANIE MILLER saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 59-year-old retired teacher, who recently moved from Ohio to Michigan, now pays $341 a month for a pair of plans, one that covers routine […] The post ‘This is gambling’: Rising ACA premiums push Americans to riskier, no-frills health plans appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, ‘This is gambling’: Rising ACA premiums push Americans to riskier, no-frills health plans, WHEN MELANIE MILLER saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 59-year-old retired teacher, who recently moved from Ohio to Michigan, now pays $341 a month for a pair of plans, one that covers routine […] The post ‘This is gambling’: Rising ACA premiums push Americans to riskier, no-frills health plans appeared first on Local News Matters .
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