{"id":11184,"date":"2018-08-14T10:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11184"},"modified":"2018-08-14T10:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:35:34","slug":"feds-urge-states-to-encourage-cheaper-plans-off-the-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11184","title":{"rendered":"Feds Urge States To Encourage Cheaper Plans Off The Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For those who make too much money to qualify for health insurance subsidies on the individual market, there may be no Goldilocks moment when shopping for a plan. No choice is just right.<\/p>\n<p>A policy with an affordable premium may come with a deductible that\u2019s too high. If the copayments for physician visits are reasonable, the plan may not include their preferred doctors.<\/p>\n<p>These consumers need better options, and in early August federal officials offered a strategy to help bring down costs for them. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/feds-urge-states-to-encourage-cheaper-plans-off-the-exchanges\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65175305&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9myr5UdgaGLVwnEIvI8FFGwV8tRnU8lhgzNffZ3y-KIhX6rBRJOxRw7Se48HM1bvFhIQEn4Mcv6GMw2jDzqRQ2Yy_M8Q&amp;_hsmi=65175305\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) For those who make too much money to qualify for health insurance subsidies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11185,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11184\/revisions\/11185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}