Obamacare Uncertainty is Scaring Off Health Insurance Companies quoting : NBC News

Separately, Tennessee insurance commissioner Julie McPeak told a US Senate panel Wednesday that Congress needs to send the industry a clear signal by March to avoid disrupting the individual health insurance market for 2018. The Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges have become too risky for major health insurers, and that's creating further doubt about coverage options consumers might have next year. Claxton thinks insurers also will watch closely the debate over the fate of the ACA and, with it, the long-term prospects of the individual insurance market. Anthem would like to see fewer special enrollment periods and better verification of patients who are eligible, as well as the repeal of a health insurance tax and other fixes. Even if parts of the law continue to exist in some form, as many expect, the insurance exchanges through which millions have bought coverage are in peril.




The health insurance tax (HIT) has increased health insurance costs for farmers, ranchers and other small businesses by imposing a levy on the net premiums of health insurance companies, which is passed on to consumers. A recently introduced bill to help lower health insurance costs for small business owners has the backing of farmers and ranchers. "The bill addresses one of the major concerns that farmers and ranchers have related to health insurance – cost. 246) would repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted as part of Affordable Care Act. AFBF is encouraging farmers and ranchers to ask their representatives to support H.R.

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