Trump administration highlights customers being ‘priced out’ of Obamacare

Published July 2, 2018 8:28pm ET



Obamacare is “increasingly failing” to cover people who don’t get the government to pay for premiums, according to the Trump administration.

Twenty percent of people who don’t receive subsidies dropped their Obamacare coverage in 2017 due to increasing costs, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, highlighting a trend that has been occurring since 2015. Between 2015 and 2016, unsubsidized enrollment fell in 23 states, with 10 states seeing double-digit declines.

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