Around the country. We found some of them have incredibly few choices that may not surprise you, but this was supposed to fix that problem. Virginia does have quite a bit of competition, even in the rural areas. Thats interesting in virginia, especially since virginia doesnt have its own state exchange. It is really going through the federal, what explains the high number of plans in virginia . Well, what i learned working at this. When we saw those numbers, we were surprised. A couple medicaid providers. What happened, a lot of the Insurance Companies dont want to go into states where they were already working. A couple big insurance providers is big and anthem has been big in virginia. They were already selling medicaid plans to people in the rural areas, lower income people. They were willing to jump on to the exchange. What about d. C. And maryland . They both have their own exchanges they have set up and people can sign up for insurance through. There are a number of plans. They w
The 10 required benefits. How much variation in his there in benefits Going Forward . We know from the bronze to the silver that has to do with the degree of coverage of premium but in terms of benefits how much variety is that is for the given product so what is that is a representation and across all types of products was the average rate of increase . Spittoons your question after 2014 the variability of benefits, you are correct there is the much lower variability among the level of insurance and deductibles as well as Provider Networks and of formulary. What you will see i think is we are competing more ought Customer Service and value added things that is the ability to help keep you healthy to get you engaged and the variability is greatly reduced. I have to go locale but we offer and again looking at that valueadded how to keep people engaging keep tight people healthy . With Congressional Research service of the question is a top Provider Networks. From where we set it may be
Different dynamics. An air tran area. Georgia, a state that has gotten some attention, an urban area like atlanta, you have a lot of different providers, lot of different providers competing, a lot of choice and variations of very competitive marketplace is. For providers as well as for plans. In other parts of the state we may be only insurer and then maybe the only hospital network. And so a lot of the variation for ross has to do with the provider network, the formularies, really with the underlying cost of care which gets automatically reflected in the rate. We cannot lose sight of the fact that ultimately on the cost of care. I would add to the point that from a rating perspective carriers of the flexibility to include the geographic rating factor. You may be across a different area and end up with variability because carriers can price based upon geography. If i could add three quick things. The first is it is important to emphasize that we have to look at aggregates instead of a
Including the pandemic conflict and Climate Change plus ah, from military parades to political rallies, brazils president j bowles, and our uses Independence Day celebrations to campaign, to his supporters. Ah, welcome to the program. The u. K. s new Prime Minister has announced a new price cap on energy bills to protect consumers from soaring prices. Liz trust says the average annual household bill for gas and electricity will be kept at 2500. 00 pounds. Thats where at around 2900. 00. The promise is expected to cost over a 1000000000. 00. But the Prime Minister has ruled out opposition calls to extend a tax on Energy Company profits. And i can tell the house today that we will not be giving in to the leader of the opposition. Oh, for this to be funded through a wind pool that would undermine the national interest. By discouraging the very investment, we need a 5. Lets bring in worry challenge whos covering developments for us from london. Hello. They worry. What exactly has trust ann
Or we need 4 votes and in order to approve that we need to take discretionary review in order to approve that so we need 4 votes to approve that otherwise the discretionary review would fail they wouldnt get even though entitlement or the authority to proceed with Building Permit applications there are 5 of you present so clearly they need 4 votes affirmatively to be approved unless theres a motion to continue the matter to allow all 7 commissioners to weigh that case you need only 3 votes to continue the matter my hope i can predict the future spark goes in and one or two of the operations go out of business im not convinced this is going to happen ill support a continuance but under you know i need to see more neighborhood support of this when it comes back to us if i ask meow now to vote on it id vote no, i think the clustering problem we need addressed at board of supervisors taking action or the folks the businesses and the residents around more of them as a we think ultimately th