Texans wanted in new round of Obamacare signups
wo weeks before a new round of signups begins for health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, federal officials have dampened projections about how many people will enter the marketplace this year, but say they are making a concentrated push to get uninsured Texans in particular to enroll.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Obama administration’s health care chief, said she expects nationwide health insurance enrollment to grow modestly in 2016 — by fewer than 1 million people, well below the 9 million figure predicted earlier by the Congressional Budget Office.
But Burwell said her administration will take aim especially at Texas and a handful of other states, trying to reduce by 25 percent the number of uninsured people who are eligible for tax subsidies. That sets the stage for Texas to play a leading role in the national health policy debate in 2016, at a time when significant changes are coming to the state’s health insurance market.
One big-name insurer is canceling a popular health plan next year after taking unsustainable financial losses, while a smaller health insurance start-up is setting up shop in Texas for the first time.
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