{"id":121,"date":"2017-09-27T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/?p=121"},"modified":"2023-06-07T20:38:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:38:46","slug":"nhhfc-reacts-to-actuarial-report-showing-medicaid-expansion-is-destroying-individual-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/2017\/09\/27\/nhhfc-reacts-to-actuarial-report-showing-medicaid-expansion-is-destroying-individual-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"NHHFC Reacts to Actuarial Report Showing Medicaid Expansion is Destroying Individual Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NH House Freedom Caucus<br \/>\nContact: info@nhhfc.org<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release<br \/>\nSeptember 27, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus Reacts to Actuarial Report Showing Medicaid Expansion is Destroying Individual Marketplace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concord &#8211; The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus (NHHFC) today responded to the release of an actuarial report showing that Medicaid expansion is massively driving up the costs of premiums in the individual marketplace. The report, prepared by Gorman Actuarial, showed that individuals buying policies in the exchange should expect 52% premium increases in 2018.  As a result of these increases, the report suggests that between 5,300 and 13,200 individuals purchasing coverage will drop health coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama told us that, under Obamacare, \u2018if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.\u2019  He did not say that you\u2019d be able to AFFORD your health plan, and thousands of Granite Staters are going to get kicked off their health plans because of Obamacare Medicaid expansion. This is one more tragic example of the failures of Obamacare and the colossal mistake of expanding Medicaid under this disastrous law.  Average citizens who are forced to buy health insurance under Obamacare now have the choice of paying hugely inflated premiums to subsidize Medicaid expansion or being forced to go uninsured because they can\u2019t afford these absurdly high costs,\u201d said Rep. JR Hoell (R-Dunbarton).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedicaid expansion has turned the American Dream on its head.  As a result, hard-working American citizens are losing their coverage so that other people, many of whom don\u2019t work, get taxpayer-funded health insurance.  This is literally the worst possible message we can send to our citizens.  It\u2019s time to end this ridiculous scheme and restore the notion that the best way to move ahead is through hard work,\u201d added Rep. Greg Hill (R-Northfield).<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n<p><em>The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus is a grassroots organization consisting of legislators and private citizens, who believe in personal liberty and the traditional conservative \u201cYankee\u201d values that made New Hampshire a great place to live.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NH House Freedom Caucus Contact: info@nhhfc.org For Immediate Release September 27, 2017 New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus Reacts to Actuarial Report Showing Medicaid Expansion is Destroying Individual Marketplace Concord &#8211; The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus (NHHFC) today responded to the release of an actuarial report showing that Medicaid expansion is massively driving up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhhfc.org\/nhhfc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}