Obamacare calendar: June 21, 2017....Please note!

[Tanuki]

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/31/15127386/obamacare-deadline-insurers-aca
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"The most important day for Obamacare is June 21, 2017. About three months from now — on, coincidentally, the very first day of summer — health insurers have to decide whether they will sell coverage on the Obamacare marketplaces.
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The marketplaces only work if private health insurance plans show up and sell coverage. Last year, well before Trump’s election, some insurers dropped out of the marketplaces because they saw them as too small or unstable. June 21 is when we’ll get the first look at whether the marketplaces are in okay shape and have enough competition to survive 2018 — or whether they are, as President Donald Trump predicted, “exploding.”

....The number of insurers selling on the marketplace fell significantly this year. As Sarah Frostenson and I reported last fall, there are 960 counties on Healthcare.gov that had just one health insurer selling coverage in 2017. That was a big increase from the 180 counties in the same situation in 2016.

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There are two key policy issues on which Laszewski says his clients are still waiting for more clarity from the Trump administration:

Will they continue to defend Obamacare subsidies in a pending lawsuit? House Republicans sued the Obama administration in 2014, arguing that certain Obamacare subsidies for low-income Americans were illegal. The Trump administration has not said whether it plans to continue defending those subsidies, as Obama did, or drop the lawsuit. The latter option, as Nick Bagley explains, would wreak havoc on the Obamacare marketplaces and make them a much less desirable place to sell.
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Laszewski says the insurers he works with can’t really set rates or decide on participation until they have answers to those two key questions. Right now they have actuaries gaming out different scenarios."

[still_one]

1. The biggest issue is if the HHS secretary cuts off the ACA funding. I wish there was a hell

because if anyone deserves it, it is these people