Experts say you should still enroll for Obamacare, despite possible repeal

The majority of all Democrats had no idea what was in this law according to Nancy Pelosi who famously said, “We won’t know what’s in the health care law until we pass it”.

Almost 46,000 New Yorkers signed up for health insurance through the state’s exchange in the last two days of open enrollment on Monday and Tuesday, the state Health Department announced Wednesday.

“People really want health care and I don’t think that changed regardless of what is being discussed out there in the political world”, Ray said.

Mary Conkling is a student at Jefferson College of Health Science who gets her insurance through the marketplace. “But it will not affect the contract that you sign up for before tomorrow night for this year”. But another potentially even more costly effect has to do with the law’s “continuous coverage” element.

At this point nothing is certain, except if you’re not signed up by midnight you won’t have coverage for 2017.

“What we’re told is if we don’t act by March or April, is that in many states there won’t be an insurance company there to sell you insurance”, Alexander said Wednesday at a HELP hearing focused on ObamaCare”. Coverage for the chronically ill increased the most in states that expanded Medicaid, from 83% to 89%.

“I tried the one at work, but it’s very expensive”, she said.

As promised President Trump issued an executive order last week, directing members of his administration to facilitate the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. Congressional Republicans have yet to coalesce behind a clear plan to replace the law. Prepare ahead of time by estimating your health care expenses, income, taxes and projected health care needs for 2017, which will make the enrollment process easier, Lang added.

“I have nerve compression in my neck, in my lower back, I have polyarthritis, I have fibromyalgia, I have scoliosis and spondylosis, and I have seizures”, Myrtle Beach resident Marcia Murphy said.

Wightman said she hopes lawmakers will come up with a comprehensive health care policy that continues coverage for people who already have it while reducing the number of Americans without insurance.

“That to me is a sign of trouble with a private part of the exchange”, Hammond said. While Gov. Robert Bentley flirted with the possibility of opting into a Medicaid expansion offered under the ACA, and hospitals said they needed it to keep their doors open, Republican leaders in the Legislature rejected it.