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Sign points to ‘explosion’ of individual health insurance premiums
Tony Ondrusek is founder and publisher of Insurance & Financial Advisor and IFAwebnews.com.
Mike Merrill, the decidedly right-leaning contributor to Forbes, explains succinctly the sign he sees that health individual health insurance premiums will not only rise – but explode – as a result of Obamacare.
Read his commentary here: The Most Ominous Sign Yet Health Insurance Premiums Will Explode
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