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Senate debates keeping key Obamacare insurer requirement quoting : Washington Examiner

The Senate is exploring a waiver system for states to give them the flexibility to opt out of key Obamacare insurer mandates. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Wednesday that community rating is still under discussion. Republican senators are considering whether to let states allow insurers to charge sick people more money for healthcare coverage. Some senators were reluctant to take a firm stance against letting states opt out of community rating. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., also said that he supported continuing the community rating.



Senate debates keeping key Obamacare insurer requirement
She pointed to proposed rate increases in Pennsylvania, where the state's insurers proposed average increases of nearly 9 percent next year. The insurance industry has been pleading with the Trump administration to continue the payments. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price refused to say if the Trump administration would fund cost-sharing insurer subsidies next year, a factor in some insurers' proposed rate increases. "You have insurers saying the reasons the rates are going up because of uncertainty and instability created by the administration," Stabenow said. Price responded that the Trump administration is not trying to sabotage the individual market, which includes Obamacare's exchanges and are used by people who don't get insurance through their employer.

Major Ohio insurer is pulling out of Obamacare market for 2018

Based on current company footprints, this would appear to leave 20 rural Ohio counties at risk of lacking a single insurer on the Obamacare exchange, or market, in 2018, according to Sen. To Obamacare critics, Anthem's Ohio exit confirms that the law mandating health coverage is deeply flawed. WASHINGTON -- One of Ohio's major health insurers, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, will not sell policies to individuals and families in the state's Obamacare marketplace next year. Ohio insurers may never see this money. Critics point to the taxes it imposed on people with high incomes and insurance companies, and the fact that for some people, the cost of health insurance rose.


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