No they don't brush of the subsidies. Or at least they claim they don't.

Quote: "For most people, subsidies won’t counteract rate shock ...

If you click on the “Your Decision” tab on our interactive map, you will now find the results, as assembled by Yevgeniy, for the 13 states plus D.C. in our original database. Here’s the bottom line: most people with average incomes will pay more under Obamacare for individually-purchased insurance than they did before."

"Most people have less than an average income..."

You realize this is a mathematical impossibility, right?

EDIT: That's what I get for being snarky. Will leave my shame for all too see :)

Outside of America, MSNBC would probably be considered a slightly right of center publication.

Well, whether or not you get increased coverage depends on what coverage you have now. Since a higher percentage of young people are either not covered at all or have bare-bones catastrophic plans, young people in general are going to get a larger increase in coverage than old. The ACA plans, as I understand it, all give more coverage than current barebones catastrophic plans. So it makes sense that their premiums might go up.

I'm not clear on to what extent premium payments from the young are treated as being in same pool as the old, in the new Obamacare system. I do know that part of the problem leading to current situation has been that young people don't have health insurance or have barebones coverage and that older people have been to some extent subsidizing health care needs of the young. If the new system cures that then it makes sense that premiums for older people may go down; younger people will now be paying closer to their fair share.

Regarding premiums for the non-sick going up and premiums for the sick going down, not sure about that. But the whole purpose of insurance is to spread costs evenly. My understanding is that many insurance companies have until now been allowed to create high cost policies that are sold to sick people. This runs counter to the idea of insurance; the cost of insurance should be the same whether you are sick or not. You pay for the insurance as a healthy person knowing that if you become sick you will be covered. Having policies with cohorts composed entirely of sick people is antithetical to the idea of health insurance.