Why Obamacare didn't implode
by Dylan Scott at Vox
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/24/16193682/obamacare-empty-counties-fixed
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Two months ago, things looked dire for Obamacare — and not just because Republicans in Congress were still hell-bent on repealing and replacing it. Nearly 50 counties across the United States lacked any insurers willing to sell plans on the law’s marketplaces in 2018, leaving almost 40,000 people at risk of having no options for coverage next year.
But now, after reports in the past 24 hours that the last two empty counties in Ohio and Wisconsin would be filled, the problem is gone: No counties currently lack health plans for next year.
The law seems to have healed itself, or at least staved off disaster, even as President Trump has been swearing that Obamacare would implode or threatening to nuke it himself.
What happened? It’s actually pretty simple: Obamacare provides significant federal assistance for many lower-income and middle-class Americans to buy insurance. It is explicitly designed to make coverage reasonably affordable for people, while requiring the government to pick up any excess costs
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