Iowa officials have WITHDRAWN the state’s request for a federal waiver to adjust federal health care law rules and help as many as 72-thousand Iowans buy INDIVIDUAL insurance policies for 2018. Governor Kim Reynolds says the U.S. Treasury Department was “several weeks away” from calculating the state’s financial commitment to the plan, plus the governor says ObamaCare is too rigid and state officials, ultimately, lacked the flexibility to make any alternative work.
State Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen estimates as many as 22-thousand Iowans will find the premiums for individual health policies too expensive and will go without insurance next year.
Reynolds is heading to Washington, D.C. tomorrow to meet with Vice President Pence, other Trump Administration officials and Iowa’s congressional delegation to discuss the insurance issue, along with others.
