Report Reveals Donald Trump's Actions Have Caused the Price of Health Care to Explode
President Trump has tried various aggressive tactics in order to deliver on his campaign promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Fortunately none of his those efforts have been successful, however, he continues to insist that Obamacare is failing.
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released a study which found that threats and otherwise mixed signals from the Trump administration have created market uncertainty “far outside the norm,” leading insurers to seek higher premium increases for 2018 than would otherwise have been the case.
This is exactly what Donald Trump has been trying to accomplish. The president and other GOP leaders repeatedly threatened to “let Obamacare fail.” For any insurer, that would be worrisome. Both the House and Senate drafts of repeal and replace bills tinkered with the individual mandate. When the effort to shove Better Care Reconciliation Act through the Senate was at its apex, President Trump was shaming holdouts in his own party. Then, finally, came the threats to just stop sending billions of dollars of payments to insurers.
The study conducted by KFF looked at benchmark silver plans, largely considered the default, across major cities in 20 states and Washington, D.C. They found that 15 of those cities will see increases of 10 percent or more next year, while the “cost of employer-sponsored coverage is expected to rise around 5 or 6 percent next year, benefits consultants say.”
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