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I checked at healthcare.gov and only 1 of the insurers has a 45% hike.
The lowest one I saw was .72%. And several others haven't even submitted their 2018 rates yet.
Always best to go to the source to check and verify "what the MSM wants you to know".
...affordable healthcare is saved - if you can afford it.
There are about 21 million people living in Florida.
According to the link you posted:
1.43 million have an Individual Plan.
1 million of them receive subsidies and "will not see their costs rise and some may even pay less".
According to the link you posted, "insurers raised premiums due to political uncertainty, specifically whether the Trump Admin will stop paying subsidies for low-income Americans".
According to the link you posted, the increase will "impact 66,000" people ( .3142857% of the total population) who do not qualify for subsidies. Some who do not qualify may earn $1 more than the threshold while others might earn $ millions more.
Pre ACA, Florida was one of the loosest states in terms of allowing insurers to sell junk plans to consumers, many of whom assumed all insurance was alike.
Trump campaigned on the promise " to replace Obamacare with something wonderful that will take care of everybody and the government is going to pay for it". It's obvious neither he nor his Admin has a plan to back up that promise.
It's obvious, Trump will ignore the promise and sign anything and declare it a victory. Thus far, his Congress has not agreed on anything.
But Trump is mere days away from revealing the health plan he campaigned on during the election. You know, the one that will cover everyone, be cheap, paid for by the government, and be "wonderful"! It's right around the corner! Really, it is!
The states which didn't expand medicaid are the states getting the high premium increases and they are also the states that have fewer insurance plan choices.
The GOP run states which refused to expand medicaid have made healthcare premiums higher for their constituents- especially for the people that pay their entire premium with their own money.
If you look at the maps of states having problems with higher rates versus states not having those problems - it's the states that didn't expand medicaid that are having the biggest issues.
Time for a bipartisan plan to establish Medicare for all. That's the only solution left and we all know it. Hell, they even know it.
How about a choice?
People who want to be in a Single Payer system can sign up for it, and all the money for it comes exclusively from taxes paid by those enrolled in it while everyone else goes private and doesn't pay that tax. If you're private and don't have insurance, you pay out of pocket. Hospitals can sue you for the money if you don't pay.
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