{"id":7987,"date":"2017-08-28T07:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2017-08-28T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T11:53:03","slug":"four-steps-that-could-cut-health-insurance-premiums-and-boost-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7987","title":{"rendered":"Four Steps That Could Cut Health Insurance Premiums And Boost Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alison Kodjak for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Congress and the Trump administration could boost insurance coverage by a couple of million people and lower premiums by taking a few actions to stabilize the Affordable Care Act insurance markets, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/health.oliverwyman.com\/content\/dam\/oliver-wyman\/blog\/hls\/featured-images\/August2017\/_Stabilizing_the_Individual_Health_Insurance_Market.pdf\">new analysis\u00a0<\/a>by the consulting firm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwyman.com\/index.html\">Oliver Wyman<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/08\/25\/546141203\/four-steps-that-could-cut-health-insurance-premiums-and-boost-enrollment?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=55696338&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8g4arw3uj0ndND0r_8QsD2WkMiTCi8T7Ouj5KhrBPnm7THY6amgSdQEa1vRqWuQn54WNV4wqPXTs8MMSwZo8EYhFCDMA&amp;_hsmi=55696338\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 20px; outline: 0px; border: 1px solid #eaeaea; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.4; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; overflow: auto; font-family: 'Courier 10 Pitch', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; 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;\"><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link's validity. 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Alison Kodjak for NPR) Congress and the Trump administration could boost insurance coverage by a couple of million people<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987","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=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}