It’s not just Aetna, United Health and Cigna have also opted out. The excrement is about to hit the rotary actuator here.
According to the CoverCal handout, Anthem, Blue Shield, and Kaiser will be widely available. The choice of other insurers varies by county. A considerable number of them are organizations that are providing MediCal HMO coverage now.
Strangely, they’ve redone the website since they made the original announcement. The originally had a large booklet that listed the choices for each county. I’m having difficulty locating it on the new site.
Actually, took two tries, the other one was the overview Power Point, this is the actual list of plans for each county.
http://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CC_Health_Plans_Booklet.pdf