Obama asks U.S. insurers for help enrolling the young and healthy(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday urged U.S. insurers offering coverage next year under his national healthcare law to step up their efforts to enroll those who remain uninsured, especially younger and healthier Americans. Several big insurers, including UnitedHealth Group Inc, Aetna Inc and Humana Inc, have announced they will pull back from the Obamacare individual insurance market in 2017, citing financial losses due to the costs of covering members who are sicker than expected. Their planned exit has prompted new questions over whether Obamacare can survive over the long-term if insurers cannot create a viable business from the market. Insurance premiums for consumers have jumped each year since Obamacare plans took effect in 2014, and those price increases are expected to grow steeper as fewer insurers participate.  Obama, in a letter to all insurers selling health plans next year on the exchanges, noted that the program has helped reduce the percentage of Americans without health insurance to a record low, and acknowledged that it could still be improved to benefit insurers and consumers. His administration will help find and enroll those who still lack coverage, with a particular focus on enrolling young adults.  “Since the remaining uninsured are disproportionately younger and healthier, signing them up improves the risk pool and consequently the affordability of coverage for all enrollees,” Obama said in the letter.  Obama, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell and other top health advisers on Monday met with executives from several leading insurance companies, including Cigna Corp Chief Executive David Cordani and Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, to discuss ways to strengthen the marketplace ahead of its fourth open enrollment period, which begins Nov. 1, according to a White House official.         A spokeswoman for industry group America’s Health Insurance Plans said the meeting’s focus included increasing enrollment.  “As health plans are preparing for open enrollment, today’s meeting was focused on how to build on the continued progress in reducing the uninsured rate and moving forward with policy solutions that will support a stable, affordable market for 2017 and beyond,” AHIP spokeswoman Clare Krusing said. politicsNews
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Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: Obama asks U.S. insurers for help enrolling the young and healthy(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday urged U.S. insurers offering coverage next year under his national healthcare law to step up their efforts to enroll those who remain uninsured, especially younger and healthier Americans. Several big insurers, including UnitedHealth Group Inc, Aetna Inc and Humana Inc, have announced they will pull back from the Obamacare individual insurance market in 2017, citing financial losses due to the costs of covering members who are sicker than expected. Their planned exit has prompted new questions over whether Obamacare can survive over the long-term if insurers cannot create a viable business from the market. Insurance premiums for consumers have jumped each year since Obamacare plans took effect in 2014, and those price increases are expected to grow steeper as fewer insurers participate.  Obama, in a letter to all insurers selling health plans next year on the exchanges, noted that the program has helped reduce the percentage of Americans without health insurance to a record low, and acknowledged that it could still be improved to benefit insurers and consumers. His administration will help find and enroll those who still lack coverage, with a particular focus on enrolling young adults.  “Since the remaining uninsured are disproportionately younger and healthier, signing them up improves the risk pool and consequently the affordability of coverage for all enrollees,” Obama said in the letter.  Obama, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell and other top health advisers on Monday met with executives from several leading insurance companies, including Cigna Corp Chief Executive David Cordani and Humana CEO Bruce Broussard, to discuss ways to strengthen the marketplace ahead of its fourth open enrollment period, which begins Nov. 1, according to a White House official.         A spokeswoman for industry group America’s Health Insurance Plans said the meeting’s focus included increasing enrollment.  “As health plans are preparing for open enrollment, today’s meeting was focused on how to build on the continued progress in reducing the uninsured rate and moving forward with policy solutions that will support a stable, affordable market for 2017 and beyond,” AHIP spokeswoman Clare Krusing said. politicsNews
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: obama asks insurers help enrolling young healthy reuters president barack obama monday urged insurers offering coverage next year national healthcare law step efforts enroll remain uninsured especially younger healthier americans several big insurers including unitedhealth group inc meta inc human inc announced pull back obamacare individual insurance market citing financial losses due costs covering members kicker expected their planned exit prompted new questions whether obamacare survive insurers create viable business market insurance premiums consumers jumped year since obamacare plans took effect price increases expected grow steeper fewer insurers participate obama letter insurers selling health plans next year exchanges noted program helped reduce percentage americans without health insurance record low acknowledged could still improved benefit insurers consumers his administration help find enroll still lack coverage particular focus enrolling young adults since remaining uninsured disproportionately younger healthier signing improves risk pool consequently affordability coverage enrolled obama said letter obama secretary health human services sylvia orwell top health advisers monday met executives several leading insurance companies including sign corp chief executive david jordan human ceo bruce broussard discuss ways strengthen marketplace ahead fourth open enrollment period begins according white house official a spokeswoman industry group america health insurance plans said meeting focus included increasing enrollment as health plans preparing open enrollment today meeting focused build continued progress reducing uninsured rate moving forward policy solutions support stable affordable market beyond ship spokeswoman clare using said politicsnews