Affordable Care Act death spiral News

Trump Ends Health Insurer Subsidy; Allows Association Health Plans, Expense Accounts

President Donald Trump’s administration took its most drastic step yet to roll back the Affordable Care Act, cutting off a subsidy to insurers hours after issuing an executive order designed to draw people away from the health law’s markets. The …

Insurers Mull Obamacare Exits as Uncertainty, Losses Mount

Another U.S. health insurer is threatening to drop out of Obamacare after posting massive financial losses related to the program, just hours after an insurance CEO said the law’s markets were entering a “death spiral.” Molina Healthcare Inc., one of …

How Obamacare Has Avoided Death Spiral

Not so long ago, critics of Obamacare were warning of death spirals, the risk that too many sick people and not enough healthy ones would sign up for insurance, triggering a cycle of ever higher costs for insurers and steep …