Time after time, we've seen companies drop out of
the Obamacare exchanges (looking at you, Arizona and Iowa and Tennessee and Kansas and Missouri) citing the high cost of coverage.
We've got a guide to the state
Obamacare exchanges here).
Heavy regulation of policy forms on
the Obamacare exchanges are forcing health insurers to exit the marketplace.
In other words, the stakes in this week's Washington budget battle are extraordinarily high for any American who buys their health insurance on one of
the Obamacare exchanges.
In most states, the CSR money flows directly to health plans who participate in
Obamacare exchanges.
In other states, it's projected that the end of CSR would trigger premium hikes averaging 19 percent for non-group health plans offered on
Obamacare exchanges — likely causing more Americans to drop coverage and more insurance companies to withdraw from the market.
In June, New York state and city agencies announced $ 34 million in tax credits for Aetna — the health insurance giant that threatened to pull out of
Obamacare exchanges as it tried to persuade federal regulators to approve a controversial merger.
Aetna (AET.N) CEO Mark Bertolini on Wednesday said during a Wall Street Journal forum that
the Obamacare exchanges had entered a «death spiral» in which rising premiums pushed out the healthiest customers, which in turn raises rates.
Also called State Exchanges,
Obamacare Exchanges, or the Individual Marketplace.
Many insurers had already pulled out of state
Obamacare exchanges before Trump took office.
Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, have partnered with Democrats on bills that would reel in rate hikes by resuming reimbursements for insurers who pick up low - income customers costs on
the Obamacare exchanges and freeing up billions for a «reinsurance» program that blunts the cost of customers with big claims, so others don't have to pay more.
Aetna announced this week that, with a few exceptions, it would no longer participate in
Obamacare exchanges run by individual states.
Remember those «other» new
Obamacare exchanges that small businesses were supposed to use to sign up workers for health insurance?
In the other states, plus the District of Columbia, which set up their own state - based
Obamacare exchanges, many had longer enrollment periods than the curtailed federal signup window.
Premiums for health plans sold on
Obamacare exchanges are about the same or cheaper than premiums for employer - offered plans, a study finds.
Fewer Illinois residents signed up for health insurance through
the Obamacare exchange this year, and premiums soared — but many are actually paying less for coverage.
Fidelis Care is a major participant in Medicaid managed care and the biggest - selling private insurer available on the New York State of Health, the state's
Obamacare exchange.
The program has crowded out commercial insurance on New York's
Obamacare exchange, and arguably contributed to rising premiums for those private plans.
NY State of Health, the state's
Obamacare exchange, has extended its enrollment deadline by three days for coverage beginning Feb. 1, in response to high consumer demand, as Congress seeks to undo the federal law that established the online market.
Bill Hammond: «The latest enrollment numbers publicized by New York's
Obamacare exchange paint an incomplete and misleading picture of what's really happening in the state's health insurance marketplace.»
The legislation, first introduced last year, would apply to all health insurance plans that are not self - insured, whether provided by employers or through the state's
Obamacare exchange.
Congressmen don't buy their health insurance on
an ObamaCare exchange and are given — at taxpayer expense — vastly superior health plans.
Not exact matches
The uncertainty around whether the Trump administration will continue these payments — known as cost - sharing - reduction payments — has left insurers jittery and contemplating leaving the individual insurance
exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act, or
Obamacare.
The uncertainty Trump is sowing over the payments — known as cost - sharing - reduction payments — has left insurers jittery and contemplating leaving the individual insurance
exchanges created by the ACA, the healthcare law better known as
Obamacare.
Under
Obamacare, plans on the individual
exchanges must cover a minimum set of healthcare procedures and contain some pricing limitations.
Under
Obamacare, the plans insurers have to offer to qualify in the
exchanges must cover a minimum set of healthcare procedures and contain some pricing limitations.
A cybersecurity expert says it could take a year to secure the risk of «high exposures» of personal information on the federal
Obamacare online
exchange.
Obamacare kicks in: For those who don't currently have health insurance, this week marks the day when you too can access coverage through the federally - run health insurance
exchanges.
In 2011, Oregon enlisted Oracle (orcl) to build a healthcare
exchange website related to
Obamacare after being impressed by the company's sales pitch, according to a previous legal filing.
Health insurance companies are exploring new ways to diversify their revenues with acquisitions in acute care after federal regulators blocked two major mergers in the sector, and insurance
exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as
Obamacare, came under pressure from Republicans.
A new survey shows that an overwhelming percentage of physicians don't believe that their states» new health insurance
exchanges will meet the Oct. 1 deadline for those key
Obamacare marketplaces to begin enrolling the uninsured.
On Monday, Anthem (antm) said it would no longer offer
Obamacare plans in Nevada's state
exchange and half of Georgia's counties in 2018.
It broke down individual
exchange enrollees by those who received coverage after 2014, or the beginning of
Obamacare's expanded coverage implementation, and those who had individual BCBS coverage prior to implementation.
Much of that decrease was due to enrollment by Georgians in private individual insurance plans sold either on new
Obamacare government health
exchanges or outside of those marketplaces.
Multiple insurance companies say the uncertainty that continues to surround
Obamacare has left them no choice but to seek premium hikes, if they are to remain in the various ACA
exchanges.
«2017 is going to be a catastrophic year for
Obamacare for patients,» said Trump, saying the public health care
exchanges are «going to absolutely implode.»
Taxpayer - funded subsidies will blunt rising costs for most people on
Obamacare's
exchanges, but several million Americans will take it on the chin.
Mr. Trump's decision to slash the enrollment period and the promotion of
Obamacare's
exchanges will contribute to price increases, as people fail to sign up, while his twin moves to offer plans that don't comport with the 2010s coverage requirements will have a relatively modest impact, boosting rates by the low single digits.
Also known as
Obamacare, it's a federal statute signed into law in 2010 that seeks to expand Medicaid eligibility, establish health insurance
exchanges, and prohibit insures from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
In the latest blow to
Obamacare, Aetna is vastly reducing its presence on the individual
exchanges in 2017.
But as millions of Americans began getting their health insurance through
Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and healthcare
exchanges, this became politically more difficult.
You can't favor repealing
Obamacare and then leave the millions who get health insurance through the Medicaid expansion and
exchange subsidies to scramble or go without health insurance.
All persons enrolled in insurance plans in State
Exchanges that include elective abortion coverage to pay a separate premium straight from their paychecks to fund all types of elective abortion (
ObamaCare Sec. 1303 (b)(1) & (2), Pg.
Some of them (dissident tea partiers) would want huge spending and regulation cuts, regardless of the effect on people who get healthcare through
Obamacare's
exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
If
Obamacare said «We are not going to pay for abortions, if you want insurance to cover it, you have to purchase it outside the
exchange».
Some of the
exchange sites saw so much traffic from people interested in signing up for
Obamacare that they bogged down... and in the sound of those webservers crashing, we can hear the doom of the Tea Party wing of the Republican party.
UnitedHealth, which is scaling back its
Obamacare public
exchange offerings to just three markets and has lost hundreds of millions of dollars on its
exchange plans, asked for a 45.6 percent rate increase on the individual
exchange.
The Dem plan also includes safeguard provisions for the state Health
Exchange created under
Obamacare and other related insurance protections.
In addition, beginning in 2017 under a Hannon bill, New Yorkers will be able to register as organ donors when they buy health insurance through the New York health
exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act known as
Obamacare.
It's worth noting that Republicans in the state Senate balked at approving the state - based health
exchange after some lawmakers questioned whether they want to give the OK to a key feature of
Obamacare.