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Health insurers weigh choice of offering plans on Obamacare exchanges in 2018 or pulling out

Dan Gorenstein Mar 27, 2017
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Health insurers weigh choice of offering plans on Obamacare exchanges in 2018 or pulling out

Dan Gorenstein Mar 27, 2017
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What now? That’s the question after House Republicans last week failed to pass a repeal-and-replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Over the weekend President Trump predicted the ACA will “explode.” One way that could happen is if more insurers drop out of state and federal exchanges in 2018. They’re worried they’ll take a bath insuring sick and expensive customers, as some already have. So they’re looking to Congress and the Trump administration for help.

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