{"id":4064,"date":"2016-08-24T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:22:10","slug":"5-states-nearly-700-counties-dont-see-choice-and-competition-promised-by-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"5 States, Nearly 700 Counties Don\u2019t See \u2018Choice and Competition\u2019 Promised by Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Lucas for The Daily Signal)<\/p>\n<p>Five states will be down to just one health insurer on the Obamacare marketplace next year, and consumers in 664 counties are projected to face that same situation under a law sold as providing \u201cchoice and competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five states that will have no choice are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2016\/05\/humana_pulls_out_of_alabama_le.html\">Alabama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/health\/article\/moda-health-leave-alaska-s-individual-insurance-market-2018\/2016\/05\/02\/\">Alaska<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/32764518\/bcbs-asking-for-average-50-percent-rate-increase-for-aca-participants\">Oklahoma<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/20160816\/160819562\/aetna-will-stop-selling-obamacare-plans-in-south-carolina\">South Carolina<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wyomingbusinessreport.com\/winhealth-dying-after-amputated-obamacare-kickback\/\">Wyoming<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/08\/23\/5-states-nearly-700-counties-dont-see-choice-and-competition-promised-by-obamacare\/?utm_source=TDS_Email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBell&amp;mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURrNFlqVTFZMlZtT1dVMiIsInQiOiJuWmZSb2ZMVEk4aGdMQm5nbUNuRkNlOHM5VHBhb2wxbTBTQzk2eU9DSUhkaTBOM3UwM3psYXBxYzFDVU1jWlEyaWVwVXllWGRsK3Zxc0R4NVhndWRhS3hMUE9ZbU5jd2REZUFsTWEwTEgzTT0ifQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Fred Lucas for The Daily Signal) Five states will be down to just one health insurer on the Obamacare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}