Kemp health insurance proposal drops big changes to Georgia Obamacare

Georgians who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act may have expected big changes in their plans based on an initial proposal by Gov. Brian Kemp regarding the way the marketplace works. But the Kemp administration has backed off of the most dramatic changes in its waiver proposal to the federal government.

The proposal also postpones until 2022 a reinsurance plan for new state subsidies that had the potential to drop premium prices. The delay is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic’s drain on state revenues and health staff’s time.

The Kemp administration said the revised proposal still has a set of “innovative solutions” designed “to reduce premiums, increase coverage, and promote a more competitive private insurance marketplace” in the state.

“The core design...remains unchanged,” Kemp spokesman Cody Hall said in a written statement. In working over the proposals since December, Hall said that Kemp’s administration and officials from the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury “mutually learned a lot from each other.”

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