Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen says he’s changed his feeling about the prospect that federal regulators will approve his plan to help thousands of Iowans keep health care coverage next year.
His stop-gap plan tries to help 72-thousand Iowans by getting a waiver so the Affordable Care Act subsidies can be used to younger, healthier people to help them buy insurance. And the plan would send some of the subsidies directly to insurance companies to cover the costs of treatment for seriously ill customers.
Ommen hopes Iowans will speak out and let the federal government know they need the plan.
Just one company plans to offer individual policies in 2018 through the Affordable Care Act exchange. Enrollment for 2018 policies on the exchange begins November 1st.
