JUST RELEASED: Although 2019 premiums for plans in the ACA marketplaces are flat or falling in many places, they would be substantially lower still if not for several Trump administration-backed changes to private insurance markets, our new analysis finds: ow.ly/uOTM30mnC49 
ACA silver-level plans in the marketplaces will cost an average of 16% more than they otherwise would have, due to the combined effects of the loss of ACA cost-sharing reduction payments, the repeal of the individual mandate penalty and the expansion of loosely-regulated plans.
In dollar terms, that means 2019 ACA benchmark silver plan premiums for a 40-year-old on the federal insurance marketplace would have averaged $427 per month in 2019, instead of the $495 per month recently reported by HHS. ow.ly/Gudn30mnT9r
