What insurers don’t know will cost Obamacare customers, big-time, in 2018.
A large fraction of the price increases sought for Obamacare health plans will be due to uncertainty among insurers about whether the government will continue paying them billions of dollars in key subsidies, and whether the government will enforce a rule requiring most people to have health insurance, a new analysis says.
“Our modeling shows that this uncertainty, if it remains, could lead payers to submit rate increases between 28 and 40 percent” above the premiums currently charged customers, the analysis by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman said.
