Brookings Study and Health Care Premium Hikes Show Americans Across the Country Left Holding the Bill
New Data Makes Lawsuit Filed Today Against Trump All the More Urgent
Washington, D.C – This morning, the Brookings Institution released a new analysis showing premiums would be going down for Americans absent Trump-GOP health care sabotage, all while insurance companies’ profits soar. It comes out as the Trump administration has greenlit junk insurance plans that skirt protections for people with pre-existing conditions and a new lawsuit filed in federal court shows the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional sabotage is responsible for raising Americans’ premiums.
Leslie Dach, chair of Protect Our Care, released the following statement in response:
“People buying health insurance in America today are paying more for it than they should because of the relentless — and unconstitutional — sabotage campaign by the Trump Administration and its Republican allies in Congress and the states. People who are seeing substantial premium increases are paying more than they should and the people seeing small rate decreases should be paying even less. The fact that Americans are paying more because of Trump’s sabotage when insurance companies are getting massive tax breaks and their profits and CEO salaries are soaring — and projected by this report to skyrocket even further — is outrageous, and underscores why millions are fed up with this Republican war on health care, and why it’s so important that cities and citizens are taking Trump to court today.”
AMERICANS PAYING MORE DUE TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S SABOTAGE CAMPAIGN:
In nearly nearly every state where data is available, premium rates are higher because of Trump-GOP sabotage than they otherwise would be. Insurance companies have requested insurance rate increases in 44 states.
- Alabama: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 4 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 16.4 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Alaska: preliminary rates indicate a seven percent decrease that would have been a 13.7 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Arkansas: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 7.76 percent.
- California: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 8.7 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 5.2 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Colorado: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 21.6 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 5.1 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Connecticut: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 12.3 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 7.4 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Delaware: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 5.7 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 18 percent decrease without sabotage.
- District of Columbia: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 19 percent.
- Florida: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 8.8 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 2.5 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Georgia: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 14.7 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 5.8 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Hawaii: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 32 percent, but the state would have seen an overall four percent decrease without sabotage.
- Idaho: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 24.55 percent.
- Illinois: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 10.7 percent.
- Indiana: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 5.1 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 7.9 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Iowa: preliminary rates indicate an increase of not more than 5.6 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 5 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Kansas: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 16.11 percent.
- Kentucky: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 19.4 percent, but the state would have seen an overall .4 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Maine: final rates indicate proposed increases as high as 9.5 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 9 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Maryland: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 30.2 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 24 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Massachusetts: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 13.33 percent.
- Michigan: final rates indicate proposed increases as high as 11.1 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 3.4 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Missouri: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 25 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 10 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Montana: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 10.6 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 4 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Nebraska: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 3.69 percent.
- Nevada: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 30.2 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 24 percent decrease without sabotage.
- New Jersey: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 5.7 percent.
- New Mexico: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 18.5 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 6 percent decrease without sabotage.
- New York: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 24 percent, with fully half of the increase due to sabotage.
- North Carolina: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 8.14 percent, but the state would have seen an 8.1 percent decrease without sabotage.
- North Dakota: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 29.33 percent.
- Ohio: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 8.2 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 3 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Oklahoma: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 6.1 percent.
- Oregon: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 10.6 percent, but the state would have seen only an overall 1.7 percent increase without sabotage.
- Pennsylvania: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 13.2 percent, but the state would have seen an overall 5.5 percent decrease without sabotage.
- Rhode Island: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 10.7 percent, with one point of this increase due to sabotage.
- South Carolina: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 9.3 percent.
- South Dakota: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 10.44 percent.
- Tennessee: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 10.84 percent, but the state would have seen decrease as high as 21 percent without sabotage.
- Texas: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 35.07 percent, but the state would have seen an overall decrease of 10.6 percent without sabotage.
- Utah: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 16.51 percent.
- Vermont: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 10.8 percent, but the state would have seen only an overall 3.5 percent increase without sabotage.
- Virginia: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 64.3 percent, but the state would have seen only an overall 1.7 percent increase without sabotage.
- Washington: preliminary rates indicate an average overall statewide increase of 19.08 percent, with much of this increase attributed to sabotage.
- West Virginia: preliminary rates indicate proposed increases as high as 23.85 percent.