The number of Maine children without health insurance is climbing after years of declines, even though fewer live in poverty, a new report found. In Maine, 6 percent of children, or about 14,000, lack health insurance. Only 4 percent of Maine children live in households headed by an adult without a high school diploma, the best such rate in the country. Maine did not expand the health insurance program for low-income residents, and instead tightened eligibility for Medicaid during the past five years under Gov. Only one other state, North Dakota, saw increasing numbers of uninsured children between 2010 and 2015, the report found.
The tiny health insurance company holding Obamacare together
Obamacare monopolies aren't true monopolies; other health plans can decide to rejoin marketplaces and undercut existing health plans' prices. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska stopped selling plans there this year, and Wellmark (Iowa's Blue Cross plan) will quit the state's marketplace in 2018. The plan's enrollment is dwarfed by that of big health plans like UnitedHealth (47 million patients) and Aetna (20 million). "The information we've seen coming from the administration actually creates more uncertainty rather than creating greater certainty," says Brad Wilson, chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City announced on May 24 that it will not sell coverage on the Obamacare marketplaces next year.collected by :Lucy William
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