Earlier this week, the Trump administration restored Obama-era rules that allow individuals to buy affordable insurance plans that aren’t bound by Obamacare’s costly regulations. You’ve heard of the rule that such plans are required to cover people with pre-existing conditions: a rule that was already in place for every other health insurance market. But you may not be as familiar with the complex thicket of other regulations that the Affordable Care Act imposes on individually-purchased insurance plans. The law’s system of health insurance subsidies already caps what the sick have to pay for coverage; the law’s system of health insurance regulations mainly serves to drive healthy people out of the market. INVESTORS’ NOTE: The biggest publicly-traded health insurance companies include UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH), Anthem (NYSE:ANTM), Aetna (NYSE:AET), Molina (NYSE:MOH), and Centene (NYSE:CNC).

Source: Forbes February 22, 2018 19:52 UTC