ACA about-face: Insurers keeping premium increases lower than last year, RWJF and AP studies find

The Affordable Care Act market has turned around for 2019, according to two studies, and that means premiums are not increasing as much as they did in 2018.

Unlike last year and in prior years, insurers are expanding their footprint in the ACA market and offering lower premium increases than they did for 2018.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s tracking report shows an overall national ACA premium increase of 4 percent, which is below the double-digit increases for this year, according to Katherine Hempstead, senior policy advisory for RWJF.

“What we’re seeing this year is an 180...