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by Terr_ 939 days ago
Health Insurance is another fun/annoying one, because it's not like you can reliably standardize 1 standard unit of insurance and it's difficult to compare across plans. (Perhaps by design, the Confusopoly at work.)

That said, BLS is starting to tweak how they measure health care costs. [0]

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/improvements-cp...

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My understanding, as someone who bought health insurance on the healthcare.gov marketplace, is that the ACA did in fact standardize health insurance into “bronze,” “silver,” and “gold” tiers. The tiers are defined by actuarial math that I don’t recall at the moment.