1 million signed up for 2017 Obamacare plans during open enrollment

It’s possible that Obamacare will repealed by the end of 2017, but for now the lawful choice is to choose a plan by the deadline. Total health insurance sign-ups were down 6% to about 1.1 million. But that strategy could threaten the coverage of millions of Americans if the block grants don’t keep pace with costs, Jost said.

Trump could change some aspects of the law simply through his cabinet appointments, she said.

Trump’s Virginia campaign chairman, syndicated radio host John Fredericks, said Trump’s transition team is working on a better plan for health care.

He says for now, consumers with a plan under the ACA can rest assured. More than 9,800 customers who had coverage through the marketplace in 2016 have made a plan selection for next year, a spokesman said. It would nix the individual mandate, which fines Americans who can afford health insurance but go without it. Premiums are highest after age 50, since older people tend to spend more on health care than younger ones.

Scott Lewellen of Des Moines said Trump’s softening stance gave him some hope that Congress won’t just dump the entire Obamacare program.

“And that piece of it – that we should not pay based on volume, but we should be paying providers based on the value that they offer to the marketplace – that idea, I think, resonates across partisan lines”. That’s an increase of 69,000 compared to previous year. An Associated Press analysis found that in about one-third of the counties in our country, those relying on Obamacare, will have just one health insurance company available next year. It ended annual and lifetime caps on the amount insurers would pay – practices that had bankrupted many people who had insurance but whose treatment cost more than the limits.

“If the new Congress passes a bill to repeal all of the ACA, I hope that a replacement for the ACA is stapled to that bill”, Gerhart wrote in an essay he posted online.

“I’m talking about repeal and replace, ” Ducey continued. Like Scott, she said the federal government should provide states with the money and allow them to make independent decisions.

Obamacare may be on the verge of ruin but people keep buying them.

Both before winning the election and since, Donald Trump has reiterated his plan to retain the pre-existing coverage provision contained in Obamacare.

It bars insurers from denying coverage because someone has a pre-existing condition.

Enrollment in individual health plans continues through January 31. “I think when it gets to that point, you have to realize this thing has gotten out of control”. “Are we going to go back to the days when if you had a cancer or diabetes, that they’re going to take your insurance away from you?” This includes 12m people who now buy on the exchanges, and 9m who purchase directly from insurers.

“The program attracted a lot of sick people and we knew that it would”. They hate the health care system.

The election is over and many of us are in shock. It’s not affordable, even for people making six figures. “They have not been in touch with us yet”.