The biggest losers would be middle-class people who don’t get health benefits from their employers and make too much money to receive subsidies for private insurance from a health insurance exchange. Both of those outcomes would lead to fewer Americans having health insurance and destabilize an insurance market already plagued with problems. Health insurance companies know that an insurance market without the requirement that everyone get coverage will be worse for them and their customers. Requiring insurers to cover anyone regardless of pre-existing conditions but not including a mandate caused insurers to raise rates to cover their expenses. “We know our block of business is using their health care,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post December 09, 2017 14:15 UTC