“The timing couldn’t be worse,” said Allison O’Toole, chief executive officer of ­MNsure, the marketplace Minnesota created under the ACA. Under the law, ACA health plans must continue those discounts. In Colorado, one of the states that asked for two sets, the insurance commission approved the higher rates on Friday. The state’s marketplace, Connect for Healthy Colorado, is now scrambling to load the necessary information into its computer system, according to Kevin Patterson, its chief executive. Maryland is in worse shape, because the two insurers in its marketplace filed only rates that assumed the CSR payments would continue.

Source: Washington Post October 14, 2017 23:37 UTC