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Aetna exits [all] Obamacare exchanges
Washington Examiner ^ | 03 August 2017 | Kimberly Leonard

Posted on 08/03/2017 8:50:34 AM PDT by Lorianne

Health insurer Aetna announced Thursday that it would completely withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges in 2018, after seeing its profits soar from reducing its participation this year.

The company said during an earnings call that it was withdrawing from the exchange in Nevada, the last state it had considered staying in. Aetna was leaving the possibility open because it was applying for a Medicaid managed care contract, and the state gives extra consideration to insurers that participate in both programs.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; aca; aetna; exchanges; obamacarecollapse; obamacareinsurers
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1 posted on 08/03/2017 8:50:34 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Let the entire rotten system collapse!


2 posted on 08/03/2017 8:51:32 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Lorianne
Aetna was leaving the possibility open because it was applying for a Medicaid managed care contract, and the state gives extra consideration to insurers that participate in both programs.

Aetna is determined to pick taxpayer pockets one way or another.

3 posted on 08/03/2017 8:52:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Lorianne

As Our President says: “let it collapse” then the dems will be begging him to fix it...ROFL...they are the ones that voted on this mess, fix it yourselves, oh yeah I forgot, they don’t have brains to think with!!!


4 posted on 08/03/2017 8:54:12 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Any Airplane! fans out there?

"I say, let 'em crash!"


5 posted on 08/03/2017 8:55:18 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: HarleyLady27

It was built to implode. They knew it would fail. That’s why they passed it. What they didn’t count on was a trump win. That tossed a monkey wrench in their single payer plans.


6 posted on 08/03/2017 8:56:03 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Yo-Yo
"I say, let 'em crash!"

They bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into.

7 posted on 08/03/2017 8:59:43 AM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: Lorianne

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/state-department-expands-definition-close-family-visa-applicants-refugees/


8 posted on 08/03/2017 9:02:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lorianne

is anybody left?


9 posted on 08/03/2017 9:02:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Sacajaweau

Good video attached...


10 posted on 08/03/2017 9:03:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Yo-Yo

They knew what they were getting into when they bought the ticket.


11 posted on 08/03/2017 9:04:24 AM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP - VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS & SAVE THE US FROM COMMUNISM)
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I think there should be a government clinic in each town that is absolutely free to anyone that walks in and can treat anything. All doctors that work an hour there, get an hour of their private income tax free. All private clinics send all ALL people who will not pay to the government clinic, no more clogging up the ER, no more sticking paying customers with their unpaid bills. No more turning hospitals into wal mart. Blammo free chit for freeloaders (and even legitamate hard cases), and it is 100% government controlled (therefore superior), while not ruining the private system for everyone else.


12 posted on 08/03/2017 9:04:29 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Lorianne

Good for Aetna. Insurance companies may be greedy, but they aren’t stupid.


13 posted on 08/03/2017 9:05:42 AM PDT by upchuck (Turn signals and brake lights... instant messaging before there was instant messaging.)
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To: Lorianne

Fear not, Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain will handle it.


14 posted on 08/03/2017 9:07:55 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: upchuck

Good for Aetna? Not if you’re a taxpayer.


15 posted on 08/03/2017 9:09:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Lorianne
Not quite a Mission Accomplished moment but..

Single Payer or BUST!!!

16 posted on 08/03/2017 9:11:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Lorianne

Yes, let its death spiral continue. The ‘RATS own this pile of excrement 100%. Let them OWN IT in the 2018 elections after American citizens see the MASSIVE cost increases coming their way in the 2019 Obamacare premiums & the co-pays & deductibles. There will be a ‘RAT bloodbath ... and the ‘RATS KNOW IT! Let’s not rescue them.

I’ve been surprised and sad to see some “weak sisters” here on FR advocating that Republicans work with the ‘RATS to rescue Obamacare (I.e., give it new MASSIVE subsidies and help it further progress us toward socialized medicine).


17 posted on 08/03/2017 9:14:26 AM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: cableguymn
The question is ... are Americans smart enough to remember that the Democrats got us into this mess in the first place. And better: are the RINOs smart enough or have the cajones to blame the Democrats.

I don't have a lot of hope for either.

18 posted on 08/03/2017 9:19:27 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

Nope... at the end of the day the media and democrats will have the whole works blamed on Trump and the republicans.

And enough of the voters will believe it.


19 posted on 08/03/2017 9:21:09 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cableguymn
[It was built to implode. They knew it would fail. That’s why they passed it.]



And Gruber was right about one thing - the stupidity of liberal voters
20 posted on 08/03/2017 10:10:13 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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