Political Quotes

“the American people are looking to Congress to turn the page on healthcare and start working on bipartisan improvements to our healthcare system. Stabilizing the individual market is the first thing we should all focus on. The repeated attempts to repeal and replace the healthcare law, as well as the administration's threat to stop making the cost-sharing payments that help keep premiums down and keep markets stable, have injected massive uncertainty into the system. Insurers hate nothing more than uncertainty. It drives them to jack up the costs of premiums and to pull out of markets. Already, insurers in three States have issued two separate sets of proposed rates for 2018--one if the administration makes the cost-sharing payments and one if it does not. The set of proposed rates if the payments are not made is 20 percent higher in all three States. I don't know the third, but two of them are North Carolina and Pennsylvania, which are very significant States. In Idaho, the State insurance commissioner said that rates on the most popular plans would be 50 percent higher next year because of ``the potential refusal by the Federal Government to fund the cost share reduction mechanism.'' That comes from the State insurance commissioner. I do not know if that is an elected position, but whether it is elected or appointed, my guess is that he is a Republican. They do not elect too many Democrats out there.…”