Obamacare must be dying because the left is now blaming Trump.

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Maryland, which has a state-run exchange instead of using the federal Healthcare.gov platform, released requested premium increases from the five insurers in its market on Thursday.

The proposed increases are quite stunning.

Of the five insurers, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States had the lowest average requested increase for their plans, at 18.08%. The highest was CareFirst of Maryland, with an average increase request of 58.80%, which would bring the baseline monthly premium payment for the plans up to $714.95.

The maximum requested premium increases were similarly striking. The biggest proposed jump came from Cigna, which requested a 150.83% hike for a plan on the high end.

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In fact, in California, the insurance commission told insurers that the companies could submit plans that assumed CSRs would be paid and a set of rates assuming they went unpaid.

"I have written President Trump asking that he and his Administration stop undermining the Affordable Care Act and health insurance markets," read a letter from Dave Jones, the California insurance commissioner, to insurers filing in the state. "Health insurers are legitimately concerned that the President's actions are undermining the ACA and health insurance markets."

Most other states have set deadlines for plan submissions in June.

In addition to the uncertainty regarding CSR payments, which some experts said insurers are already baking into the rate projections, Trump's administration has also issued a number of rules that could cause instability in the individual market.

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