Even Obamacare is better under Trump........
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-obamacare-premiums-down-second-year-in-a-row
Obamacare premiums for midlevel plans will fall by 4% next year, bucking predictions that premiums would soar after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans made changes to the healthcare law.
The drop in 2020 premiums, announced Tuesday, marks the second consecutive year that premiums will go down under President Trump. To go along with the decrease, more insurers are joining Obamacare exchanges, offering customers more options. A total of 175 insurers are offering plans across the U.S., an increase of 20 from the year before.
The trend begins to reverse double-digit premiums and mass insurer exits seen during former President Barack Obama's last two years in office.
"The bottom line under President Trump: Costs are down and options are up," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in a phone call with reporters Monday.
The outcomes are despite the latest changes to the healthcare law. As part of the tax law, Republicans zeroed out, starting in 2019, the fine for going uninsured, known as the "individual mandate," and the Trump administration is allowing people to buy plans outside of Obamacare's rules. Democrats and pro-Obamacare groups warned these actions would have a devastating effect on the marketplace, but those predictions appear to have been off the mark.
"The president who was supposedly trying to sabotage the law has been better at running it than the guy who wrote the law," Azar said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-obamacare-premiums-down-second-year-in-a-row
Obamacare premiums for midlevel plans will fall by 4% next year, bucking predictions that premiums would soar after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans made changes to the healthcare law.
The drop in 2020 premiums, announced Tuesday, marks the second consecutive year that premiums will go down under President Trump. To go along with the decrease, more insurers are joining Obamacare exchanges, offering customers more options. A total of 175 insurers are offering plans across the U.S., an increase of 20 from the year before.
The trend begins to reverse double-digit premiums and mass insurer exits seen during former President Barack Obama's last two years in office.
"The bottom line under President Trump: Costs are down and options are up," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in a phone call with reporters Monday.
The outcomes are despite the latest changes to the healthcare law. As part of the tax law, Republicans zeroed out, starting in 2019, the fine for going uninsured, known as the "individual mandate," and the Trump administration is allowing people to buy plans outside of Obamacare's rules. Democrats and pro-Obamacare groups warned these actions would have a devastating effect on the marketplace, but those predictions appear to have been off the mark.
"The president who was supposedly trying to sabotage the law has been better at running it than the guy who wrote the law," Azar said.
