Landrieu (LA) and Manchin (WV) are both Red-State Dems (Senators), Manchin has announced that he will not seek reelection, and we need to find a suitable candidate to run for his office. There is no primary in Louisiana, and Landrieu is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. If you are from LA, let her know how wrong this is: landrieu.senate.gov/?p=contact The Obama Administration announced last week that, for current enrollees, insurance companies may extend into 2015 any health plans they offer in the individual or small-group market that do not comply with health reform’s standards and consumer protections. Congress, however, may consider proposals that go further — including a bill sponsored by Senators Mary Landrieu and Joe Manchin (S. 1642) — that risk unraveling key components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by causing premiums to rise significantly in the new health insurance marketplaces (also known as exchanges) and undercutting the law’s reforms to the individual health insurance market. This would place the viability of the marketplaces at risk. If the marketplaces unravel, millions of uninsured people expected to gain coverage under health reform will lose access to coverage. In general, both the Administration’s new policy and recent House and Senate proposals would prompt larger numbers of healthier-than-average people to remain in non-ACA-compliant individual-market plans outside the marketplaces; that, in turn, would cause the pool of people in the marketplace plans to be sicker, on average, than it otherwise would be. This “adverse selection” would produce higher premiums in the marketplaces, particularly for 2015.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:12:09 +0000
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