Competition Suffers Most If UnitedHealth Exits Obamacare In 2017: Analysis

(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)

If UnitedHealthcare follows through on its threat to quit the health insurance marketplaces in 2017, more than 1 million consumers would be left with a single health plan option, forecasted an analysis released Monday.

A UnitedHealthcare pullout would be felt most in several states, generally in the South and Midwest, where consumers would be left with little choice of plans, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported. (KHN is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)

In most of the 34 states where United operates this year, though, the effect would be modest for premiums and the number of plan options, Kaiser said. Read article here……

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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