{"id":7695,"date":"2017-08-07T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2017-08-07T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:56:34","slug":"why-a-pennsylvania-insurers-collapse-could-whack-californians-in-the-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7695","title":{"rendered":"Why A Pennsylvania Insurer\u2019s Collapse Could Whack Californians In the Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced\u00a0by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Among all the reasons for rising health insurance premiums, this one might be the most obscure: A long-term care insurer in Pennsylvania just went belly-up.<\/p>\n

Health insurers across the country are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses stemming from the recent\u00a0insolvency<\/a>\u00a0of Penn Treaty American Corp., of Allentown, Pa., and its two subsidiaries. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was produced by Kaiser Health News<\/a>, which publishes California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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