Why Life Insurance Prices Are Going Up Again As The Affordable Care Act Goes Into Effect

A new analysis from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) finds that life insurance premiums will likely increase in the coming years due to the ACA’s implementation and its new premium limits.
According to the report, premiums in 2018 will be $3,000 higher than in 2020, with premiums in 2026 $3.5 million higher, and in 2027, $4.6 million higher.
The average annual premium for a single individual will increase by $1,600 in 2020 compared to 2020, and by $2,400 in 2029.
The rate of increase will be greater for older Americans, the report found, and higher for people with lower incomes.
The cost of premiums is likely to increase for many Americans, but the impact will be greatest for low-income Americans and for those in the middle of the income scale.
The impact of the ACA has been widely acknowledged.
As of June 30, nearly 2.4 million people had health insurance through the ACA, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
According the Congressional Budget Office, the number of uninsured Americans dropped by nearly half between 2013 and 2019, from a peak of nearly 11 million in 2014 to just over 6 million in 2019.
It’s important to note that the new premium caps will not have a direct impact on consumers.
Under the ACA regulations, the federal government will not impose new limits on the number or type of plans a person can purchase.
Rather, the caps will have a limited impact on the costs of health insurance for individual and small business plans, and will have no impact on premiums.
But the new limits will have an impact on how many people can be covered by health insurance.
Since the new caps do not apply to plans that have no deductibles or co-pays, the total number of people who can be considered covered by the ACA will not increase.
Instead, the ACA caps on deductibles will remain at $6,000 for individual plans, $6.5000 for family plans, or $7,500 for small businesses.
The limits also do not affect the types of plans that can be purchased.
Because the caps on the amount of coverage are limited, the amount that will be affordable for most consumers will likely be a lower number than previously expected.
For example, the average premium for an individual in 2020 was $3.,500, and the average for a family in 2020 is $4,200.
The new caps will also likely increase the number and types of health plans that consumers can buy, which could lead to higher premiums and lower-quality plans.
While it is still early days for the new health care law, the results of this report should help drive home just how important it is that we stay on track with our goals of expanding health care coverage to all Americans.
IRC Senior Analyst Michael A. Moffat, M.D., M.P.H., is the principal investigator on the analysis.