Obamacare Rates Likely to Keep Going Up
Health insurance companies will file proposed 2019 rates with my office later this month. The proposed rate changes will not apply to anyone who has health insurance through a large employer or a government program like Medicare or Medicaid. The new rates will affect the roughly 100,000 Montanans who purchase individual or small group health insurance through the federal exchange or the open market.
While we don't yet know what the rates will be, I expect to see increases again, as we have every single year since Obamacare was implemented. Obamacare has made a mess of our health insurance and health care systems, and
The good news is that
As your state insurance commissioner, I have very limited authority over the Obamacare system created and enforced by the federal government. My office reviews the insurance companies' rates and shares that information with the public, but we can't set the rates. One of the major problems with Obamacare--and another reason it needs to be entirely repealed--is that it prevents Montanans from developing our own, better health care system.
Even with these limitations, I have acted within my authority to expand health care options and lower costs for the people of
I took action to allow Montanans to participate in direct primary care agreements with doctors and authorized the use health care sharing ministries, both of which provide alternatives for more affordable health care. My office is actively engaged in shining a light on the major problems within the pharmaceutical industry that are driving the huge costs of prescription drugs.
I also worked with the
Despite all the political obstruction, the problems created by Obamacare, and
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