Posted on 02/01/2017 5:03:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
Leaders for the health insurance industry, state insurance commissioners and brokers warned Wednesday that more health plans almost certainly will defect from Affordable Care Act marketplaces unless Congress and the Trump administration provide some concrete assurances within the next two months.
Unless the government promises to continue subsidies and other features of the law for at least another year, some states probably will not have any insurers selling health plans to individuals buying coverage on their own for 2018, the witnesses warned at a Senate hearing.
“I think we would lose more insurance companies,” said Marilyn Tavenner, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s largest trade group. Insurers that remained, she predicted, would hike prices by perhaps 20 percent. …
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If there is a 2018 for ACA then we have all failed.
Hopefully there won’t be an ACA by 2018.
Lose more Insurers?
That’s cuz it works so good, ain’t that right, dumbles....
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