NEW: Six insurers return to Florida Obamacare market in 2018
And an average requested rate increase of 17.8 percent among a total of nine insurers offering ACA-compliant plans comes in slightly below last year's approved average hike statewide of 19.1 percent. For the six on the exchange, it's 17.3 percent.
Most customers don't pay the headline rate increases under Obamacare, however. Instead, about nine of 10 of
Others returning to the Obamacare market include
A total of nine
President
If cost-sharing payments end, Trump will be responsible for "the destabilization of the marketplace and the deliberate sabotage of our neighbors' health and financial well-being,"
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For 2017,
Last year Florida Blue was granted a 19 percent increase, more than its initial request of 14.5 percent. Regulators said they granted higher premiums for some companies after conditions changed since the original filing, including the announcement by some competitors they were pulling back from marketplace participation.
In 2016,
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