Every county in the US set to have an ObamaCare option

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

As of Thursday, every county in the U.S. will have at least one ObamaCare insurer in 2018.

CareSource announced that it would fill the last remaining "bare" county in Paulding County in Ohio.

“The Marketplace provides vital health care coverage to more than 10.3 million Americans and we want to be a resource for consumers left without options," CareSource CEO and President Pamela Morris said in a statement.

"Our decision to offer coverage in the bare counties speaks to our mission and commitment to the Marketplace and serving those who are in need of health care coverage.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/347795-insurer-fills-last-obamacare-bare-county

[Not Ruth]

1. Awesome news for Obamacare and healthcare

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Huge news, but be certain trump will do everything in his power to deny

healthcare to as many of us as he can.

He is a textbook sociopath.

[Cryptoad]

3. What??????????

but but but the Rethugs said only half the counties would have ACA,,,,,,,,,, can't believe they lied

[Yonnie3]

4. the GOP has destabilized the Healthcare Insurance market by every means at hand.

Instead of single payer we have single insurer.

Anthem becomes third insurer to exit Virginia’s health care exchange

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Two other major insurers – Aetna and UnitedHealthCare --previously announced their exit from the marketplace.
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Anthem said they do not believe the insurance market is stable and that “planning and pricing for ACA-compliant health plans has become increasingly difficult due to a shrinking and deteriorating individual market, as well as continual changes and uncertainty in federal operations, rules and guidance, including cost sharing reduction subsidies and the restoration of taxes on fully insured coverage."

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http://wtvr.com/2017/08/11/anthem-becomes-third-insurer-to-exit-virginias-health-care-exchange/

A quick trip to healthcare.gov shows only Aetna and Anthem offer policies in my zip. I think this means no providers for 2018.

Edit to add: Some searching shows news stories saying Optima will remain. For some reason they are not listed on the healthcare website. Optima is owned by the same company as one of the Hospitals here and the policies I looked at before I aged out of the marketplace restricted you to that hospital.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Sounds too good to be true.

I hope the Senate passes the cost sharing subsidies in Sept or else we are still screwed (on a monthly basis no less).