Premiums for ObamaCare’s benchmark silver plans will increase by an average of 15 percent in 2018, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a new report released Thursday.
CBO blamed the premium hikes on “short-term market uncertainty.”
Insurers have pleaded for more certainty on key ObamaCare payments called cost-sharing reduction subsidies, which reimburse them for giving discounts to low-income patients.
The Trump administration has made the payments on a month-to-month basis, but insurers want them funded on a long-term basis.
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