{"id":4174,"date":"2016-09-02T16:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2016-09-02T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:41:56","slug":"simple-choice-plans-to-debut-in-2017-marketplace-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4174","title":{"rendered":"Simple Choice Plans\u2019 To Debut In 2017 Marketplace Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26.0571px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">Despite much hand-wringing about<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #003b79; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26.0571px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/kff.org\/health-reform\/issue-brief\/preliminary-data-on-insurer-exits-and-entrants-in-2017-affordable-care-act-marketplaces\/\" target=\"_blank\">health insurers exiting the marketplaces<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26.0571px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>where people buy individual coverage, in many areas\u00a0consumers will likely still have a choice of\u00a0plans\u00a0when the 2017 open enrollment\u00a0starts in November.\u00a0Aiming to make picking a plan easier, the federal government, which runs the marketplaces in roughly two-thirds of states, is encouraging insurers to offer\u00a0\u201csimple choice plans\u201d as an option this fall.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/simple-choice-plans-to-debut-in-2017-marketplace-enrollment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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