Donald Trump is destroying Obamacare from within. And Michigan is a case study

[GreenBean]

if given the chance, they will rip us off as consumers and as tax payers.

You mean like being subsidized via our tax money ? AKA Health Care subsidies , like the ones Trump recently wiped out via Exec. Order ...... very good ... the Orange man has a pen and he has a phone just like the black man did ... don't like it do you ? Dial 1 800 Kiss my Orange Ass

 

[Grumblenuts]

Trump's lies about Obamacare no longer existing are impeachable.

 

[debbiedowner]

This article is based on what would have happened if csr's cut mid year.

Sudden Cost-Sharing Reduction End Could Thump Florida Blue

Sudden Cost-Sharing Reduction End Could Thump Florida Blue
Florida is home to about 20% of CSR subsidy users

Friendship Foundatin in Jacksonville, Florida (Photo: iStock)
If the Trump administration goes through with a decision to end Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments today, that could hit Florida Blue and health insurers in Florida especially hard, according to data from Avalere Health.

Analysts at Avalere, a health data and data analysis firm, report that a mid-year end to cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments could cost individual health coverage issuers about $1 billion, and Florida issuers about $200 million.

Florida Blue covers more than half of Florida's cost-sharing reduction subsidy users, and that means the looming $1 billion subsidy payment cut could cost that company alone about $100 million by the end of the year.

(Related: Trump Praises Deal to Trade Temporary ACA Cash for State Flexibility)

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Florida Blue put out a statement saying it remains committed to offering Florida residents access to high-quality, affordable health coverage.

In spite of the possibility that cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments may end in the middle of the year, "we will make no changes to our existing ACA plan through 2017, and we're going to absorb the financial impact of that decision," the company says in the statement.

Cost-Sharing Reduction Subsidy

The cost-sharing reduction subsidy helps Affordable Care Act exchange plan users with family income under 250% of the federal poverty level handle health play deductibles, co-payments and coinsurance amounts.

The upper income limit is now about $30,000 for an individual in most parts of the country, and about $61,500 for a family of four.

The federal government pays the subsidy money straight to the coverage issuers, not to the enrollees.

Florida has been the biggest exchange plan market, with about 1.8 million exchange plan enrollees, and about 1.2 million cost-sharing reduction subsidy users.

Units and affiliates of Florida Blue, an arm of Jacksonville, Florida-based Guidewell Mutual Holding Corp., provide coverage for about 1 million of the Florida exchange plan users, or about 55% of all Florida exchange plan users.

Florida plans cover about 1.2 million, or 20%, of the 6 million people using cost-sharing reduction subsidies this year.

Republicans in Congress have questioned whether the Obama administration had valid congressional approval to make the cost-sharing reduction program payments from the beginning.

The Obama administration had argued that the same spending approvals that covered the Affordable Care Act premium tax credit subsidies covered the cost-sharing reduction subsidy program.

The case is still making its way through the federal courts.


States Other Than Florida

The Avalere analysis shows that a sudden termination of cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments could cost insurers in California $107 million and insurers in Texas $98 million.

Chris Sloan, a senior manager at Avalere, noted in a comment about the firm's analysis that a mid-year cut could cause more problems for insurers than a full-year 2018 subsidy cut, because insurers now appear to be locked in to offering 2017 plans they designed and priced based on the assumption that the government would make cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments throughout 2017.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Note: This guy is a Republican:

Kasich Slams Trump's Move on Health Care Subsidies

WASHINGTON — Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump's decision to stop funding some health care subsides during an interview with host Chuck Todd on NBC's "Meet The Press."

"What I don't understand, Chuck, is what are they doing?" the governor asked. "Are they just passing these things and people are praising what the president did because of politics? I mean, do they understand the impact that this has on families, on people?"

The president and many other Republicans have called these subsidies a "payoff" to health insurers.

Kasich slammed that suggestion on "Meet The Press," saying, "these were payments to insurance companies to make sure that hardworking Americans, who don't make a lot of money, can have their co-payments taken care of."

A few Repubs have called him out on this sabotage he's doing. To be fair, the Rs were doing it before he was elected but what he is doing will really hurt a lot of people - mostly the people who likely voted for him.

Its trumpcare now and his fans are going to have to find something else to blame it on.

 

[Grumblenuts]