"It is disproportionately affecting the rural," explained Dianna Welch, an actuary at Oliver Wyman. The firm's analysis found that 97 out of 100 counties where 62-year-olds who earned around $36,000 would see the biggest jumps in costs were rural. The Wall Street Journal's own number-crunching showe
Meanwhile, in a presentation on premium trends in private healthinsurance sponsored by the states Division of Health Care Financeand Policy last June, Dianna Welch noted that premiums in the state werent merely increasing:consumers, in response, were also buying substantially lessinsurance. T