Keyword: Peter Lee

Every state faces steep individual marketplace premium increases in 2019 and beyond without intervention at the state or federal level.

Some states are weighing options to implement their own insurance mandates, efforts that have largely stalled.

From Kaiser Health News: Covered California, the state’s ACA exchange, is wielding a monster marketing budget that devotes $45 million to ads.

From Kaiser Health News: California’s health exchange has ordered insurers to add a surcharge to certain policies next year.

From Kaiser Health News: California’s health exchange and a major insurer pressed Republican leaders to clear up confusion about their plans for parts of the ACA.

From NPR/Kaiser Health News: As the ACA’s third open enrollment closes, five exchange leaders discuss their strategies to stay in business beyond 2017.

When open enrollment begins Nov. 1 for the Affordable Care Act exchanges, standardized health plan options will be available for the first time.

California’s Affordable Care Act marketplace premiums will increase 13.2 percent in 2017, drawing new concerns about exchange plan affordability.