Insurance Premium: The Item Missing from NPR's Piece on Subsidies Under Obamacare

NPR did a piece on the pattern of subsidies created by Obamacare. It rightly noted that the Affordable Care Act restructures the individual market so that healthy people will subsidize less healthy people, just as is now the case in the market for employer provided insurance.

However it may have misled listeners about the size of the subsidies. It gave an example of a person who is being made worse off by the change in the structure of insurance under Obamacare:

"Dentist Aaron McLemore of Lo...