Obamacare insurers see better financial performance in 2017, ‘no sign of market collapse’

CNBC January 4, 2018
Dan Mangan

• Obamacare health insurers are showing “no sign of a market collapse'” despite Trump administration claims to the contrary.
• The Obamacare market has continued stabilizing and insurers are regaining profitability, a new report says.
• Sign-ups for individual health market plans were surprisingly strong at the end of 2017 despite undercutting of the market by President Donald Trump.

That report instead finds that the Obamacare market has continued “stabilizing,” and that insurers are “regaining profitability” despite continued political uncertainty over the health-care law.

It also found that the pool of Obamacare customers, while less healthy as a group than before the law took effect, showed no signs of becoming sicker in the latter part of 2017.

“Data suggest that insurers...

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