"Health insurance premiums on New York's state-run exchange will go up by an average of 7.1% next year. But rates differ greatly by payer, plan type and region, highlighting the difficulties of relying on crude averages.... Oxford Health Plan enrollees will see their monthly premiums drop 12.3% in 2016, whereas people with Health Republic Insurance of New York will have to pay 14% more.... [T]he second-lowest-cost silver plans, which are the benchmark for setting the [ACA's] premium subsidies, will only increase by 0.5% next year in New York City."  MORE >>