Cheaper Obamacare 2019 Premiums on the Way

Part of the cause behind the benchmark insurance premium skyrocketing in the first place was market instability. Insurers hiked the premiums to cover their anticipated losses in a time of market upheaval. There is also conjecture that premiums have fallen because repealing Obamacare was a non-event, and will remain stalled during the open enrollment period.

Obamacare 2019 On the Rise

The amount of insurers on the federal exchange is also anticipated to grow for the first time since 2015; CNN cites 23 more carriers in the Obamacare 2019 open enrollment market than were present last year.

USA Today says that Tennessee is expected to receive the biggest Obamacare 2019 premium drop––26%–– and that the average premium for the “benchmark” plan will cost $406 next year. However, as each of the 39 states offering Obamacare 2019 differ slightly in their marketplaces, their insurance premiums deviate slightly. Wyoming clocks in at the highest anticipated benchmark insurance premium cost, $709, while Indiana’s $278 clocks in as the lowest insurance premium for Obamacare 2019.

Low and Behold

The lower insurance premium could be a boon for people who don’t qualify for premium subsidies (given that the subsidies cover 90% of the Obamacare health insurance policy’s cost). CNN reports that most of the people dropping out of the Obamacare market departed because they didn’t qualify to receive subsidies, and thus shouldered a lot of the impact of the past rate hikes.

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