If you had asked me in January to place a bet on the number of insurers that would file plans for 2019 by early July and you offered me the following options:
- About the same
- Significantly fewer insurers
- Significantly more insurers
I would have taken the under.
If you had asked me if there would be a “bare county” problem on the Exchanges, I would have been surprised if there was not at least one state currently struggling to cover their rural areas.
I was wrong on both counts.
I'm counting over a dozen new entrants to 2019 #ACA Marketplaces…
AZ: Oscar
FL: Oscar
IA: Wellmark
ME: Anthem (if reinsurance)
MI: Oscar
NM: Presbyterian
NC: Centene
OH: 1-2 unknown companies
OK: Medica
TN: Bright
UT: Molina
VA: VA Premier
WI: Molina…and zero exits
— Cynthia Cox (@cynthiaccox) June 27, 2018
And I owe it to you to explain where my model and thoughts went wrong.
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