5 States, Nearly 700 Counties Don’t See ‘Choice and Competition’ Promised by Obamacare

Daily Signal ^ | 8/23/16 | Fred Lucas

[milton23]

Five states will be down to just one health insurer on the Obamacare marketplace next year, and consumers in 664 counties are projected to face that same situation under a law sold as providing “choice and competition.”

The five states that will have no choice are Alabama, Alaska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wyoming.

Two more states, North Carolina and Kansas, are close to having only one Obamacare insurer, health policy experts note.

Alabama will be down to a single insurance company next year because Humana and UnitedHealthcare announced their departure. Aetna and UnitedHealthcare exited South Carolina. UnitedHealthcare also departed Oklahoma.

[DoughtyOne]

Maybe there's a reason why we should only allow citizens of our nation to be president...


Ramirez's latest political cartoon LARGE VERSION 08/21/2016: LINK  LINK to regular sized version of Ramirez's latest, and an archive of his political cartoons.
In this political cartoon, Ramirez presents, "Obama's Disaster"


If you're not on the automated monthly donation program, please consider joining the One One Done project.  LINK

FReepers, 60.38% of the Third Quarter FReep-a-thon goal has been met.  Please click above and pencil in your donation now.  Please folks, lets end this FReepathon.  Thank you!
...this is a general all-purpose message, and should not be seen as targeting any individual I am responding to...

[WayneS]

The Law of Intended Consequences...

[dhs12345]

I see that Colorado is not on the list. However, we have our own hell to deal with — Single Payer is on the ballot this November.

If it passes, then we will be really screwed because the idiots haven't determined the impact if we have Single Payer but the Obamacare mandate is still in place. Which law do we comply with?

But, what the hey — pot is legal. Maybe it is time to light up a doobie, quit my job, and go on welfare. Life might be easier on the government dole because every time the government mandates this thing and that, my life becomes that more difficult. I am drowning!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Vermont studied single payer. They were dead-serious about doing it.

Until all of the number crunching revealed that the cost of doing so would essentially DOUBLE the entire state budget.

Is anyone in Colorado making this point?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What in the world is wrong with the author and headline writers? How did they possibly write this without using “unexpectedly”??

[dhs12345]

No one yet. The solution: raise taxes? I also wonder if the bureaucrats would love a multi billion dollar slush fund.

[notdownwidems]

I am a former Colorado resident; is TABOR still extant? How do they plan to get around it if they go to single payer and, like a subsequent poster says, it doubles (or triples,lol) the state budget?

[dhs12345]

Ya it is and so we are headed for a budget collision if Single Payer passes. Good news is that it will delay implementation.... I hope.