Two of four insurers will no longer sell Obamacare plans in Indiana

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – Anthem and MDwise, the two insurance providers that sold Obamacare plans in all 92 Indiana counties this year, are pulling out of the health exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act.

Anthem, which covers about 46,000 Hoosiers through exchange plans, cited volatility in the market when announcing Wednesday it will not offer 2018 plans.

MDwise, which covers 30,800 in exchange plans, wants to focus instead on its Medicaid plans, which serve 370,000 Hoosiers. The decision was also influenced by the growing uncertainty over the future of the federally-subsidized market, MDwise said Wednesday.

About 147,000 Hoosiers were enrolled in an exchange plan in February, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2017/06/21/anthem-no-longer-sell-obamacare-plans-indiana/416397001/

[customerserviceguy]

1. The only solution is single payer

The ACA was about bribing the health insurance industry into doing the right thing, and it seems to have failed. Unfortunately, I fear things will have to get worse before they get better. In other words, Trump and the Republicons will fail to change the ACA, and as a spite tactic, will run it into the ground as fast as they can. Hopefully, they will get the blame, and we will have a Democratic President, House, and Senate in January 2021, who will fix things.

However, for me, I hit Medicare eligibility in the month of November 2020. and presuming that doesn't change, I will no longer have a dog in the fight, as they say. But, I will work to make sure my children and grandchildren have a system that actually takes care of people, and not just one that makes insurance company executives rich.

[SergeStorms]

2. The Republicans.....

are the people who created the "uncertainty" these insurers are talking about. The insurers WERE "doing the right thing" under the ACA, but the GOP has scared them, and I'm sure many other insurers, into bolting from the program. If left alone, the ACA would have done fine, I believe, but Republicans are determined to erase or destroy anything that President Obama and the Democrats did to actually HELP people. The only people Republicans want to help are the wealthy, because they've had it SO ROUGH under the Democrats' plan.

[customerserviceguy]

3. Absolutely correct

The lawsuit challenging the reimbursements was all about that, because the average GOP'er really though that Trump had no chance of winning. Now, they have the prospect of really running the ACA into the ground, and making sure Trump gets all the blame.

They ran on hate of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I fully expect them to deliver on their promises to destroy everything the Democratic Party has accomplished for the American people in the previous eight years.