CBS Notices "Another Problem" With ObamaCare – Higher Deductibles; ABC, NBC Omit

Norah O’Donnell’s 20-second news brief on Monday’s CBS This Morning is the sole Big Three network mention so far of the Wall Street Journal’s Sunday report about a “troubling element” of ObamaCare – exorbitant deductibles with the no-frills plans available on the health care exchanges.

O’Donnell zeroed in on the item by reporters Leslie Scism and Timothy W. Martin, who cited a new report that found that “the average individual deductible for…a bronze plan on the exchange..is $ 5,081 a year”: [Video below the jump]

NORAH O’DONNELL: The Wall Street Journal says health insurance customers are finding another problem under ObamaCare. The new generation of policies have higher deductibles. Consumers have to pay more of their own money before insurance kicks in. The average deductible for the lowest level of insurance on HealthCare.gov is more than $ 5,000.

Scism and Martin detailed how the report from HealthPocket Inc., “a company that compares health-insurance plans for consumers”, analyzed the health care plans in 34 out of the 36 states that haven’t set up their own exchanges under the controversial health care law. The report also underlined that the $ 5081 average cost is “42% higher than the average deductible of $ 3,589 for an individually purchased plan in 2013 before much of the federal law took effect.”

The Wall Street Journal correspondents also noted how “‘cost-sharing’ subsidies to help pay deductibles are available to people who earn up to 2.5 times the poverty level….[but] the cost-sharing subsidies for deductibles don’t apply to the bronze policies.”

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CBS Notices "Another Problem" With ObamaCare – Higher Deductibles; ABC, NBC Omit

Morgue Worker Notices Crash Victim Is Still Alive

(Newser) – A 72-year-old car crash victim had been in a German morgue for several hours Monday when a worker there noticed something odd: She was still breathing. The woman was injured when her 18-year-old grandson veered into oncoming traffic on a highway about 35 miles north of Hamburg. The resulting crash killed the woman’s daughter, who had been in the back with her four sons, the youngest of whom also died; paramedics believed the grandmother had suffered the same fate. Unable to find any signs of life, they assumed she’d died of head trauma, the Local reports.

“What exactly happened next, no one knows,” says a hospital spokesperson. When the morgue worker realized they were wrong, the woman was rushed to the hospital, where she was operated on for four hours. She is currently in a coma. (This is, of course, not the first time this has happened. See here, here, and here.)

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Morgue Worker Notices Crash Victim Is Still Alive