[nfb-talk] Why So Many Insurers Are Leaving Obamacare

[Jack Heim]

Here is a link to an article that does a good job of explaining the 
problem with the ACA and how it can be fixed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/05/why-so-many-insurers-are-leaving-obamacare/526137/#main-content

The reason so many providers have pulled out of the ACA exchanges is 
that too many states chose not to expand Medicaid coverage and the 
subsidies aren't big enough.  So a state, like Iowa declines to take the 
federal money offered in the ACA to expand Medicaid. Now poor and sick 
people flood the ACA exchange in that state and the provider, seeing 
that while those people get subsidies, they're  not enough.  The 
solution is to get more of those states, most of them run by 
Republicans, to expand Medicaid and also to increase the subsidies.

PS: The problems with the ACA are very much exaggerated. Sure, a lot of 
places have only one provider but that's not a *disaster*.
-- 
John Heim
john at johnheim.com
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