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SD Health Insurance Rates Going Up

SD Health Insurance Rates Going Up

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The cost of health insurance continues to rise, and it looks like that will continue in 2016.
Deb Muller is Chief Administrative Officer for Avera Health Plans, and says they have rewritten a number of policies for next year……………

Muller says medical costs continue to drive insurance rates. She says those costs are rising more rapidly in one area……….

Muller says while their plans are available on the health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act, the prices are the same for everyone……

Muller says they expect to sell over ten thousand individual policies for next year.

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