1 million sign up for Obamacare for 2017 so far

President-elect Donald Trump says he will repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a national health care reform measure also known as Obamacare. But the GOP has not advanced any alternatives that would protect the millions of people who now depend on the law.

Martinez said Tuesday that she expected people to continue to enroll for insurance using health care exchanges as long as it’s the law and that insurance can not simply be taken away. The other is preventing health insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

While the recent election has left the future of the ACA and the healthcare coverage of millions of individuals in limbo, it is nevertheless certain that change is on the horizon. “On the campaign trail, Donald Trump only described it as ‘something terrific.’ They’re basically backed into a corner”, said Julie Rovner, a senior correspondent at the Kaiser Family Health Foundation in a podcast Wednesday. In other words, they need a mandate.

He said the fact that the program didn’t do what it was meant to do was not news to economists.

Timothy Jost, an emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Virginia who is an expert on the health law, also predicts a reasonable transition period.

President Obama said he thinks Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare will get harder now that they have the responsibility of governing.

There are three links to the government’s health insurance website in just one paragraph.

The flood of people signing up since enrollment began November 1 surpassed 1 million on Saturday, outpacing enrollment from past year, new data show. They’ll save premiums, knowing they can get coverage once they are diagnosed with diabetes or their child gets cancer or their spouse is in an auto accident. “There is no soft landing in California”, he said.

“The open enrollment and rates have been set for 2017, and, in my opinion, it would be a slow unwinding”.

“Best day yet this open enrollment”, she tweeted.

Independent estimates predict that repealing Obamacare will cause about 20 million people to lose coverage. Pollitz says this combination would lead healthy people who think insurance is too expensive to drop their policies and sick people to buy. Another is allowing young adults up to age 26 remain in parents’ health plans. This option would be similar to the rules for Medicare Parts B and D that cover outpatient services and prescription drugs, respectively.

That’s according to a report from the American Action Forum, which indicates that Obamacare premiums will have risen by at least 27 percent by this time next year. In contrast, people may move in and out of the individual market a number of times over their lives as they change jobs or leave the Medicaid program, for example.

Repealing the consumer protections might be the most hard. “It will be repealed and replaced and we’ll know and it’ll be great health care for much less much money”.