Health insurers and state officials say Trump is undermining Obamacare, pushing up rates

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Health insurers and state officials say Trump is undermining Obamacare, pushing up rates
Trump insurers
Noam N. Levey


Health insurers across the country are making plans to dramatically raise Obamacare premiums or exit marketplaces amid growing exasperation with the Trump administration’s erratic management, inconsistent guidance and seeming lack of understanding of basic healthcare issues.

At the same time, state insurance regulators — both Democrat and Republican — have increasingly concluded they cannot count on the Trump administration to help them ensure that consumers will have access to a health plan next year.

The growing frustration with the Trump administration’s management — reflected in letters to state regulators and in interviews with more than two dozen senior industry and government officials nationwide — undercuts a key White House claim that Obamacare insurance marketplaces are collapsing on their own.

Instead, according to many officials, it is the Trump administration that is driving much of the current instability by refusing to commit to steps to keep markets running, such as funding aid for low-income consumers or enforcing penalties for people who go without insurance.

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-obamacare-trump-mismanagement-20170518-story.html

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1. This is what is really going on in

Rate Jacking Game.

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2. should this not be valid for only states that depend of heatchcare.gov?

In California we have Medicaid Managed care Medi-cal and our own marketpace Covered California...

The states that depend on healthcare.gov are red states and they asked for this.