{"id":8375,"date":"2017-10-24T13:04:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2017-10-24T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:04:03","slug":"69-of-metro-areas-have-significant-absence-of-health-insurer-competition-ama-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8375","title":{"rendered":"69% of metro areas have &#8216;significant&#8217; absence of health insurer competition, AMA finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Morgan Haefner for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One health insurer held at least half of the market share in 169 of 389 metropolitan areas, according to an American Medical Association\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/about\/competition-health-insurance-research\">study<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/payer-issues\/69-of-metro-areas-have-significant-absence-of-health-insurer-competition-ama-finds.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/health-care.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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 Morgan Haefner for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) One health insurer held at least half of the market share in 169<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8375","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\/8375","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=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8376,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions\/8376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}