White House: HealthCare.gov Average Premiums Set To Increase In 2015
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama administration officials are acknowledging that HealthCare.gov premiums, on average, will go up next year.
But the same officials say most current customers can still save money if they are willing to shop around a competitive marketplace.
In a report released Thursday, the Health and Human Services Department says premiums for the most popular type of plan will go up an average of 5 percent in 35 states where the federal government is running the health insurance exchanges.
However, the administration says more insurers are participating in the marketplace this year.
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Problem: Many physicians no longer accept Medicare and this includes not only my own personal physician but also my husband's personal physician. What to do when they dump us all together?
Said reason for this: They are not getting paid enough $$$ so it's a giant F/U to anyone out there that happens to be on Medicare (like it or not).
They need to do some major fixes on Medicare before it would ever be suitable for everyone, especially considering the fact that fewer and fewer physicians are accepting it. It needs to be desired by everyone, not just patients (physicians must be included).
You get second rate care on Medicare (a personal observation) and how to fix this problem is to give the physicians what they want which is ... more $$$ and more $$$ NOW!
Greed rules in our society sadly. 
...they'd have to accept it because it'd be the only game in town.
- Capice?
...but just how much is "enough?" What the market will bear? What the physicians believe they're worth? What?
Not a contracted amount pre-determined by Medicare.
I have nothing against this plan and I support it fully. As it now stands, I don't frankly believe my doctor deserves anything more than he/she gets for an office visit (~$75.00 paid out for a visit billed at close to $250.00; ER a real nightmare -- Medicare amount is very low and if you walk in off the street and get billed it runs likely into thousands of dollars too often whereas the Medicare patient might be responsible for 20% if they have Part B and then that nasty supplemental plan that no one seems to care to discuss. It is an issue!
However, noting the recent "changes" (i.e. lack of providers) something has to change.
Perhaps allowing everyone to enroll in Medicare AND giving providers more $$$ it will work as you'd have more people paying for Medicare which would not just cover the elderly/disabled but everyone regardless of status.
Many people might not use their insurance as they are not sick and do not need it. These people are paying into the same system and hence a profit to said system being they are not using it. If possible, a "reward" system could be another thought. 
If you stay well and don't find a need to use the insurance, perhaps you might qualify for a rebate.
By covering people regardless of age, status, finances, etc. could work if the physicians get more patients and a higher reimbursement rate. This is a supply/demand issue IMO. If it weren't for the likes of you and me, they would not have a job! Remember this fact as you select the plans available now and try to come up with viable fixes to this seemingly broken ACA system as it now stands.
How can this be fixed we should be asking.
That is what is needed around here at the DU, answers to problems, not just criticism(s).
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, physicians included, is where I'm at with this issue.
I am glad it has worked well for you, though. 
Well, I'll be. I guess the insurance companies will be embarrassed with all those riches.
- Again.
What's an 80's Moderate Republican to do?
That's on an ACA platinum plan. The one before the ACA was a gold plan and it would have been 5% higher in 2014 outside the ACA than my less expensive 'in ACA' platinum plan. It was a no-brainer decision; a better plan and save money.
For 2015, with a change in age groupings it would be going up 17%, but I'm going to switch back to my previous gold plan (still within the ACA), which will be 3% higher than what I'm paying now.
I don't regularly go to the doctor and don't use meds, so I doubt I'll even notice the difference. If my memory serves me right, that's slightly less than it was going up before PBO, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other democrats gave us the ACA program. 
just like buying a TV. OTOH my employer plan went up only 8%, not the 40% it went up last year. 