Public interest in Obamacare surges amid Trump threat to repeal

Opponents of Obamacare have jumped on the opportunity to call for its repeal, some using the hashtag #UnaffordableCareAct. Finding a replacement is harder.

“I’ve got clients that are getting the subsidy that are complaining about the amount of the raise they have to pay”, said Westscott.

Trump and other Republicans have focused on double-digit premium increases and fewer options for those who purchase coverage through the Affordable Care Act. As far as experts can tell, if you have any gaps in your health insurance coverage – say you were temporarily unemployed or took time off to care for children or elderly parents and decided not to buy coverage – when you go back to buy coverage and you have a preexisting condition you may be rejected.

In addition to Trump’s campaign promises, many headlines about the Affordable Care Act have been negative this year.

Partpresident-electlect Donald Trump’s platform has been to repeal the law. In the month of October alone, Trump tweeted more than 18 times about Obamacare, repeatedly calling for it to be “repealed and replaced” and calling it a “disaster”.

“People have crappy insurance now”, he told reporters November 15.

However, in an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, Trump contradicted his previous statement, explaining:”We’re going to do it simultaneously”. Some of their plans would require people to remain continuously insured in order to maintain that guarantee, said Laszewski. “Let’s not disrupt millions of people”. The group’s president, Andrew Gurman, says it plans to work with the Trump administration and Congress on health care reform, focusing their efforts on expanding coverage for the uninsured and protecting existing coverage for Americans.

1M people have already shown us they want their 2017 coverage to start Jan 1, that coverage is something they need and want. “If they really do away with health coverage under the marketplace, it won’t go away immediately, because they [they’d be] leaving tens of millions of people without alternatives”.

Arizona also had to restore coverage to single adults below the poverty level whose insurance had been cut years earlier in a budget-savings move.

Another day, another argument about healthcare premiums rising. There are some insurance companies that will cover the cost of a breast pump – an item that most would argue is an actual must-have if you plan to pump at all.

Still, more than 1 million people selected insurance plans through Obamacare in the first two week of sign-ups this month, the US said in a report Wednesday.

-Some kind of new limit on the tax-free status of employer-provided health insurance, applying to the most generous plans.

John Boehner said Donald Trump ‘s willingness to consider keeping two key provisions of the Affordable Care Act is not surprising because “everybody’s open to keeping parts of Obamacare”.

Part of the anxiety is being fueled by the fact no one knows what the replacement piece of repeal and replace will look like, with some wanting a quick and complete gutting and others preferring a slower, piecemeal approach.