New study demonstrates link between Trump's action and healthcare

>Consumers in the government-sponsored markets can dodge the hit with the help of tax credits that most of them qualify for to help pay premiums. But off-marketplace customers pay full freight, and they face a second consecutive year of steep increases. Many are self-employed business owners.

>The report also found that insurer participation in the ACA markets will be lower than at any time since “Obamacare” opened for business in 2014. The average: 4.6 insurers in the states studied, down from 5.7 insurers this year. In many cases insurers do not sell plans in every community in a state.

>The researchers analyzed publicly available filings through which insurers justify their proposed premiums to state regulators. To be sure, insurers continue to struggle with sicker-than-expected customers and disappointing enrollment. And an ACA tax on the industry is expected to add 2 to 3 percentage points to premiums next year.

>But on top of that, the researchers found the mixed signals from the administration account for some of the higher charges. Those could increase before enrollment starts Nov. 1.

>“The vast majority of companies in states with detailed rate filings have included some language around the uncertainty, so it is likely that more companies will revise their premiums to reflect uncertainty in the absence of clear answers from Congress or the administration,” the report said. Once premiums are set, they’re generally in place for a whole year.

>Insurers who assumed that Trump will make good on his threat to stop billions in payments to subsidize copays and deductibles requested additional premium increases ranging from 2 percent to 23 percent, the report found.

>Insurers who assumed the IRS under Trump will not enforce unpopular fines on people who remain uninsured requested additional premium increases ranging from 1.2 percent to 20 percent.

>“In many cases that means insurers are adding double-digit premium increases on top of what they otherwise would have requested,” said Cynthia Cox, a co-author of the Kaiser report. “In many cases, what we are seeing is an additional increase due to the political uncertainty.”

>That doesn’t sound like what Trump promised when he assumed the presidency.

>In a Washington Post interview ahead of his inauguration, Trump said, “We’re going to have insurance for everybody.”

>“There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it,” he added. “That’s not going to happen with us.”

>People covered under Obama’s law “can expect to have great health care,” Trump said at the time. “It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better.”

>But the White House never produced the health care proposal Trump promised. And the GOP bills in Congress would have left millions more uninsured, a sobering side-effect that contributed to their political undoing.

>The Trump administration sidestepped questions about its own role raised by the Kaiser study.

>Spokeswoman Alleigh Marre said rising premiums and dwindling choices predate Trump.

>“The Trump administration is committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare and will always be focused on putting patients, families, and doctors, not Washington, in charge of health care,” Marre said in a statement.

>The ongoing political turmoil for people who buy individual health insurance stands in sharp contrast to relative calm and stability for the majority of Americans insured through workplace plans. The cost of employer-sponsored coverage is expected to rise around 5 or 6 percent next year, benefits consultants say.

So congress refusing to pass a repeal and replace law, means America will have much higher insurance premiums because of the Obama care failure...and this is all Trump's fault? Seriously the amount of reaching that is going now days.

>>170166
>Trump's fault
Yes, because he's been threatening to stop subsidy payments. If he does that, loads of healthy people who only bought health insurance to avoid the penalty, and because they could afford it with the subsidy, will be out of the health insurance market. Chaos ensues, premiums skyrocket.

Trump is playing chicken with the insurance market because he's an idiot.

>>170192
This is nothing new. You need to pay attention. Trump has said for 2 years that he will get rid of Obamacare. Either the nice way with help from Congress. Or the brutal way by imploding it.

He tried working with them. but the GOP traitors in congress don't actual want to get rid of Obamacare, despite what they had promised.
So now Trump is applying the cement shoes. He will destroy the democrats and the republicans and the insurance companies and everyone else that stands in the way.

>>170166
It's nothing more than shameless anti-Trump propaganda they try to push as news. Obamacare premiums were doubling a few years in a row in Arizona under Obama and no one bothered to make headlines about it, but once it's Trump at the helm it's big shit.

>>170202
The Republican removal of risk corridors by limiting funding to the CMS in order to financially reduce support of risk corridors is what has been causing premiums to rise quickly over the past few years.

Republicans have been actively trying to sabotage Obamacare for a while. They've managed to fuck over the exchanges, but they can't really touch the Medicaid expansion which has been the most successful part of Obamacare -- they've only been able to deny Medicaid in certain states where Governors don't give a fuck about the poor. Hence why their efforts during the replace-and-repeal have focused so heavily on defunding and rolling back Medicaid.

Of course, that's not to say that Obamacare was perfect; the biggest issue was underestimating the number of young and healthy people who still wouldn't sign-up for health insurance even in the face of mandate.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/25/marco-rubio/rubio-we-wiped-out-obamacare-bailout-fund-insuranc/

http://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/explaining-health-care-reform-risk-adjustment-reinsurance-and-risk-corridors/

See the section on Risk Corridors on the 2nd link to see how it works.

>>170155
>Obamacare crashing and burning since inception
>Premiums increasing since before Trump even announced candidacy
>Exchanges have been falling apart for years
>All Trump's fault

The ACA is a complete DNC creation and a complete DNC failure. As it continues to fail, it will still be a complete DNC failure.
"Just give it more money!" Get fucked.

That's a big penguin

>>170279
For you.

>>170217
>JUST GIVE US MORE MONEY THAT WILL FIX IT, IF NOT YOU HATE POOR PEOPLE
>hmm who would have thought people in their 20s
with no health issues would rather pay a $500 yearly penalty instead of $500 /mo. for their premiums

>>170287
Forgot this one. Since you can't reject people for pre-existing conditions (you know, those things that you are insuring against, the purpose of buying insurance), young people have no reason to sign up, because if you get sick THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES LOL.

>>170198
>*the American people
You forgot that in your list

>>170288
That was the point of the individual mandate. You have to have an individual mandate if you are going to ban pre-existing conditions. It obviously needed to be higher for the exchanges to attract more people.

>>170287
If you purposely refuse to use money handed to you, for free, by the federal government to be used for healthcare for your poorest citizens, then you obviously don't care about the poor's plight. The Governors who did that were playing politics, simple as that.

>>170202
>>>170166 (You)
>It's nothing more than shameless anti-Trump propaganda they try to push as news. Obamacare premiums were doubling a few years in a row in Arizona under Obama and no one bothered to make headlines about it, but once it's Trump at the helm it's big shit.
So he isn't spending even more money to jin the the crumbling system for another year or too...and this is bad because...

>>170198
Here's a game, if you replace trumps names with somebody you hate and you would hate them for doing it, you ideology might be crazy

This is nothing new. You need to pay attention. Kim Jong-ill has said for 2 years that he will get rid of American Imperialism. Either the nice way with help from Congress. Or the brutal way by imploding it.

He tried working with them. but the GOP traitors in congress don't actual want to get rid of American Imperialism, despite what they had promised.
So now Kim Jong-ill is applying the cement shoes. He will destroy the democrats and the republicans and the army and everyone else that stands in the way.

>>170317
>refuse to use money handed to you, for free
>for free
Another retarded leftist that doesn't know anything about economics..

>>170431
Another conservative finally applies what he learned yesterday.

What a stupid article.
Blaming the failure of obongocare on Trump.

Allahu Akbar!
The U.S. must take Monroe Doctrine now.
The U.S. must withdraw American Forces from all Foreign Countries now.
Stop America's doing its all wars now!

I love American99% and the U.S.

China, Germany and Japan must loosen Germany's, Japan's and China's monetary policies now!
China, Germany and Japan must stimulate Germany's, Japan's and China's domestic demands now!
Japan and Germany must issue a lot of construction bond now!
Japan and Germany must reduce Germany's, Japan's and China's taxes now!
The U.S. must tighten its monetary policy now!
As a result, Dollar value will rise!
The U.S. will have trade surplus!

Japan, Germany and China are evil empires.
Islamists' true enemies are Japan, Germany, China, FRB, top1%, Wall Street, American Military Industry and DOD!
Japan is the country which has been promoting Globalization!!!
Allahu Akbar!

God, I have no idea how America even manages to stay as a first world country at this point.

>>170358
>Trump = Kim Jong-ill
>Obamacare = American Imperialism
Here's a realization. If you have to make absurd comparisons to try to reach for a point, your point at least as, if not more absurd than the comparisons you are attempting to make.

>>170198
>He will destroy the democrats and the republicans and the insurance companies and everyone else that stands in the way.
And all the people who stand to see their healthcare premiums shoot up.

Can you please try to look at things without spite being your prime motivator? Are you actually okay with Trump doing this?