Maine health insurance cooperative leaves N.H. market, reeling from losses : concordmonitor

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Maine health insurance cooperative leaves N.H. market, reeling from losses

Maine health insurance cooperative leaves N.H. market, reeling from losses

Monitor staffThere will be one fewer option for health insurance in New Hampshire next year, as Maine-based Community Health Options will withdraw due to financial losses, requiring 11,581 people to find a new carrier.The company drew attention in 2014 when it was reported to be the only health insurance cooperative in the country to make money, then drew attention of a different kind in 2015 when, after expanding into New Hampshire, it reported a staggering $31 million loss and stopped taking new clients.In the latest move, the firm said it is withdrawing from New Hampshire to focus on Maine, its core market.


besides deseretnews

Program helps low-income families with health insurance premiums

Program helps low-income families with health insurance premiums

SALT LAKE CITY — A program designed to help low-income families afford their health insurance premiums may help narrow the "coverage gap" in Utah.Alan Pruhs, executive director of the Association for Utah Community Health, said the association started the program after noticing that many patients were struggling to afford federal marketplace plans even with the subsidies offered to low-income families."Without a Medicaid expansion, we're seeing folks choose not to be insured," Pruhs said.


additionally ctmirror

CT health insurance rates to rise sharply in 2017

CT health insurance rates to rise sharply in 2017

Arielle Levin Becker / CTMirror.orgMost Connecticut health insurance plans sold through individual and small group markets will undergo steep rate hikes next year, although in some cases, the prices will not go up by as much as carriers had sought.The state Insurance Department approved 13 health policy rate hikes Friday that far outstripped increases in recent years, averaging nearly 25 percent for individuals and 13 percent for small groups.The department also rejected three requests for major rate hikes — two from Anthem Health Plans and one from ConnectiCare Insurance Co. — directing the carriers to recalculate final rates.


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Location, health insurance and new provisions make for medical provider shortages

Location, health insurance and new provisions make for medical provider shortages

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Illinois 'Obamacare' health insurance rates up significantly

Illinois 'Obamacare' health insurance rates up significantly

By Carla K. Johnson, The Associated Press