How Many Options Will Virginians Have for ACA Health Insurance Providers? quoting : wvtf

And so far, Virginia's marketplace for subsidized health insurance remains strong. The three largest providers say they'll stay on --- including Anthem, the only company to provide health insurance in much of rural Virginia. Only one of the eight insurance providers in Virginia's marketplace won't offer coverage next year. But in some other parts of the country there might be some counties where there aren't any insurers participating, and that's going to raise a lot of questions."Nothing's final yet -- insurance providers have until late summer to make a final determination. Last month, Republicans predicted the Affordable Care Act was on the verge of collapse, but now insurance companies are starting to make plans for the coming year.




Amid uncertainty in Washington about the future of the Affordable Care Act, states are moving to bolster their own insurance markets, hoping to fend off big rate increases and pullbacks by insurers. Idaho, Oklahoma and Minnesota have passed bills that aim to blunt insurers' costs for covering people who buy individual insurance and have health conditions that require expensive treatments. The measures would allow insurers to unload...

Maps Show A Dramatic Rise In Health Insurance Coverage Under ACA

People who do not make much money, and who are less likely to have health insurance, have especially benefited. For example, since 2010 the law has allowed young people to stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26. And nationwide, a lot more poor people are covered by health insurance than were before the Affordable Care Act. In most of those states, the expansion took effect in 2014, when the online health insurance exchanges also went live. New data from the U.S. Census Bureau present the most detailed picture yet of the dramatic rise in the number of people covered by health insurance since the Affordable Care Act went into effect.


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