Georgia’s largest health insurer is requesting an average premium increase of 40 percent for individual coverage in the Affordable Care Act insurance exchange next year.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia is the only health insurer scheduled to deliver a product in all 159 Georgia counties in the exchanges, which are designed to offer coverage to people who don’t get job-based or government health plans.
The insurance exchanges have been buffeted by uncertainty over their future. The ACA repeal plans of Republicans have created doubt over the marketplaces’ future. And the White House has not committed to funding the subsidies that insurers have received to lower out-of-pocket costs of consumers.
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