Despite uncertainty, Minnesota health plan premium requests expected Friday
The information from regulators is expected even as new questions are brewing at the federal level about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health law that started fundamentally reshaping the individual market in 2014.
Last week, the Trump administration said it would no longer defend key parts of the ACA in an ongoing legal challenge to the law. Yet on Thursday, officials with MNsure -- the health insurance exchange created by
"We don't want Minnesotans to leave money on the table" said
The individual market primarily serves people under age 65 who are self-employed or don't receive coverage from their employer, a group that included this spring about 162,000 people in
The state
In a filing last week, the
"The ability to get a policy even if you have an illness and federal help paying premiums each month won't change," said
About 270,000 people were buying coverage in the market in
Premiums spiked for 2017, but rates in many cases held steady or declined for 2018 due in part to
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