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Health insurer Aetna announced Thursday that it would completely withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges in 2018, after seeing its profits soar from reducing its participation this year.

The company said during an earnings call that it was withdrawing from the exchange in Nevada, the last state it had considered staying in. Aetna was leaving the possibility open because it was applying for a Medicaid managed care contract, and the state gives extra consideration to insurers that participate in both programs.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/aetna-exits-obamacare-exchanges/article/2630507
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T.E.C. - Iowa As bad as Obamacare is, there is nothing the GOP can do to make it better. We have reached the limit of healthcare by way of capitalist markets. It is capitalism that has failed. Obamacare is just a victim of that larger failure.

Medicare for All here we come!
Aug 4, 2017
Tim Finnegan It's a shame that the Democrats chose a single party system instead of working in a bipartisan manner. Obamacare was a poorly written bill, although those on the left will never speak ill of another Democrat plan. Many of the "few" problems Bob talks about were foreseen by the Democrats, yet they did not want to address them since their masters in ...See More
Aug 4, 2017
Bob R/CA Tim, keep attacking the dems, and insisting you're "non-partisan." It's like Trump claiming he's for everyone, then having election campaigns weekly 3 1/2 years before the election.
Aug 4, 2017
Tim Finnegan Or maybe it is like Democrats who claim to want single-payer healthcare, yet when it comes time to vote for it (such as in the completely Democratic state of California), they just say no.

The attacks are in the bad ideas, not bad parties. Obamacare was a poorly written bill, so poorly written that a fox was being worked on before it was e...See More
Aug 5, 2017
Bob R/CA Do you read yourself? You complain about Democrats voting for something that is a bad idea, then complain they don't vote for something because it isn't fully cooked.
Aug 5, 2017


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