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This post is Part 3 of an assessment of Trump administration policy with respect to the ACA, most specifically the ACA marketplace. Part 1 overviewed the administration’s early encouragement of state reinsurance programs, Trump’s cutoff of direct reimbursement of insurers for Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies, and the defunding of the Navigator enrollment assister program, paired with considerable support for health insurance brokers.
Part 2 reviewed the effective repeal of the individual mandate penalty, paired with regulations designed to boost an alternative market of ACA-noncompliant plans. Here, we’ll look at how Seema Verma’s CMS loosened rules for insurers and tightened them for marketplace applicants.
