WASHINGTON, D.C. July 17 (DPI) — Public officials – including NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo — are predicting that health-care premiums for some will decline by as much as 50% when health-policy purchase exchanges open next year.

But readers – some egged on by recalcitrant Republicans — remain deeply skeptical of the Affordable Care Act, and online comments reflect it.

A report in The New York Times this morning suggests certain elements of society – the jobless, for instance — will see health care premiums decline as much as 50% next year. The Times, a longtime supporter of both President Obama and his 2009 health care overhaul legislation, posted a highly partisan interpretation of what may or may not happen when new health-care mandates go into effect.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/health/health-plan-cost-for-new-yorkers-set-to-fall-50.html?hp

Readers of course were mixed in their reaction: More than half the comments were supportive of the news, and blamed Republicans for dissent, while a sizable minority expressed doubts that Obamacare would play out so successfully. The phrase “The Devil is In The Details” was uttered repeatedly:

1) Wouldn’t a more accurate headling read “99% of New Yorkers Will Not See a 50% Drop in Health Insurance Prices”?

2) I really hope what the New York Times is reporting proves true in “real life”…

Paying such a huge monthly premium is like throwing money into a black hole, imagine if even some of that money could be put to good use, creating jobs, not to increase the corporate profits of UnitedHealthcare.

So, I hope, we will all pay less. But as they say, the devil is in the details.

3) As usual with the NY Times this article is misleading. The 17,000 New Yorkers who buy this type of insurance does NOT include freelancers and other self employed people. It only includes the unemployed and people who otherwise do not qualify for other forms of insurance through organizations such as the Freelancers Union which has insurance for individuals for substantially less than $1000/month already. Also, the is no mention as to what the plans will actually cover and when the open enrollment periods will be. The ACA has some good points but the details are extremely vague.