The open enrollment period begins in one week for 2018 marketplace coverage, but many consumers are confused about what to expect. No wonder!
The Trump administration has slashed advertising and outreach about open enrollment, so concrete consumer information is sparse. But there’s more than enough political rhetoric to make up for it, with regular partisan pronouncements that the marketplaces have collapsed and Obamacare is dead.
Further muddying the waters on 2018 coverage was the Trump administration’s decision this month to cut off government payments to fund subsidies some marketplace customers receive to reduce their out-of-pocket costs, and a subsequent congressional proposal to restore them.
