Big Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer aims for ACA return
A prominent Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer is aiming to return to the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges next year in several states, including big markets like Texas and Illinois.
Health Care Service Corp. says it also intends to sell coverage in Oklahoma, where it is the only insurer on the exchange, as well as in New Mexico and Montana. But a spokeswoman also cautioned that the insurer won't make any final decisions on exchange participation until the fall.
Companies still have a couple more months to sort out their 2018 coverage plans.
Options are growing thin for next year in many parts of the country on the exchanges, the only place where people can buy insurance with help from income-based tax credits. Several insurers have already said they are retreating from this market, some after losing more than $100 million.
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It is very good ppo insurance.
I've just been laid off, and I have MS, diabetes and bipolar depression.
I'm hoping to stay on it through Covered California, but if Trump destroys Obamacare, staying alive will become very difficult.
in the chaos created by dump's travails, with everyone watching the train wreck, the Senate puke committee is working behind closed doors in virtual secrecy to screw us out of healthcare.
Chris Hayes did an excellent segment on this tonight, featuring clips of Claire McCaskill stating that the GOPee senate committee is working without any input from Dems on something that constitutes 1/6 of the nation's economy. The commentators--sorry, can't remember their names, but one was a Tea Party type--even he expressed disgust with the loss of any semblance of bipartisanship. Mcturdle is in uncharted waters going it alone--a new and disturbing era in the formerly more collegial Senate.
They learned their lesson from the debacle when the AHCA was going through the House = do it in secret. So, they are concocting their version of dumpcare with no publicity and then will spring it on the American people with no notice and attempt to ram it through with 50 puke votes + punce.
As I've stated previously, the pressure from the kochs et al. must be enormous. Gotta get those tax cuts. The fact that the pukes will try to enact this wildly unpopular policy just shows that they must think they have 2018 and 2020 locked up through election theft.
