eHealth CEO Supports Executive Order to Provide Consumers with More Health Insurance Choices and Affordable Options
“This executive order will bring some relief to the nearly eight million middle-class Americans who pay full price for their health insurance,” said
A recent analysis from eHealth showed that Obamacare-compliant health insurance is projected to be unaffordable by the law’s own standards in many areas of the country. The ACA defines health insurance as unaffordable when the lowest-priced plan available costs more than 8.16% of a household’s yearly income.
“Today’s actions by the Trump administration will help consumers who can’t afford Obamacare plans by giving them lower cost, longer-term options. Lifting restrictions on short-term insurance plans, for instance, is a long-overdue step that will help consumers who are caught in Obamacare’s affordability gap,” Flanders said.
“With or without
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements as defined within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include statements regarding the Trump administration’s executive order and the relief it will bring to middle-class Americans; eHealth’s analysis that a 10 percent projected price increase in 2018 would make coverage unaffordable in 47 out of 50 states for middle class families that earn too much for government subsidies; the potential that the executive order will help consumers by giving them lower cost and longer-term options; eHealth’s plan to continue to innovate to overcome Obamacare’s shortcoming; and the expectation that technology and consumer choice will lower costs and improve access and quality. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including risks associated with changes in government or regulatory policies, orders, or actions; changes in health insurance premiums; the accuracy of eHealth’s analysis and projections; the benefits and coverages afforded by short-term health insurance and other factors that could cause operating, financial, and other results to differ, which are described in eHealth’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the investor relations page of eHealth’s website at http://www.ehealthinsurance.com and on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov. eHealth undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to conform to actual results or changes in intentions or expectations.
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