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Trump Administration Extends Deadline For Insurers To Decide On Obamacare Markets

The extension leaves time for President Trump to decide whether to continue crucial payments to insurers and for insurers to figure out how they would operate without them if they were to disappear.
President Trump at a listening session with health insurance executives at the White House earlier this year.

The Trump administration is giving insurance companies an extra three weeks to decide whether to offer insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act markets, and how much to charge. The extension comes as insurance companies to decide whether he will continue to make payments to insurance companies that are called

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