{"id":3855,"date":"2015-05-22T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2015-05-22T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:14:16","slug":"psa-be-prepared-for-your-health-insurance-costs-to-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/22\/psa-be-prepared-for-your-health-insurance-costs-to-go-up\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Be Prepared for Your Health Insurance Costs to Go Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a Wall Street Journal article yesterday that caused me a little pain&#8230; in the pocket book. It looks like my health care\u00a0insurance rates are going up by about 30%. My insurance is from out of state, because the company I work for is from\u00a0out of state. However, that led me to wonder whether there will be similar impacts for our local insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>It appears Utahns are going to be hit as well. <a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2015\/05\/05\/rate-increases-anticipated-for-insurance-companies-on-the-aca-exchange\/\">According to Fox 13<\/a>, it appears that (given state approval):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select Health insurance costs\u00a0will increase\u00a015.9%<\/li>\n<li>Blue Cross insurance costs\u00a0will increase 17.2%<\/li>\n<li>Humana insurance costs\u00a0will increase \u00a020.2%<\/li>\n<li>Altius insurance costs\u00a0will increase 18.11%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This matters on a number of levels. First, most of us pay a portion of health care costs, even when our company covers most of it. So, there will be more out of pocket expenses to the average person. Second, if you own a company, this will likely hit your bottom line pretty significantly. Third, local government entities like Park City Schools offer insurance for employees. In the case of the schools they pay 100% for family coverage for\u00a0a full time employee. When\u00a0the district&#8217;s\u00a0rates rise that means those dollars are tied up in insurance and not in education.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is old news to the community. However, it was news to me &#8230; so I wanted to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a Wall Street Journal article yesterday that caused me a little pain&#8230; in the pocket book. It looks like my health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}