Reports of Obamacare’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated

• Autores: Larry Levitt
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 315, Nº. 20, 2016, págs. 2156-2157
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Recent developments have once again prompted some to declare that the insurance marketplaces developed as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are unsustainable and collapsing. And once again, these reports are overstated.

    What has prompted this latest round of recriminations is the report that UnitedHealthcare, the nation’s largest health insurance company, will be pulling out of the ACA’s marketplaces except in a “handful of states” in 2017 (http://bit.ly/1NRi5ab). The company cites financial losses in its plans sold to individuals as the impetus for its withdrawal. The insurer is still quite profitable overall, earning $3 billion in operating profits in the first quarter of 2016 (http://bit.ly/1SJ1ucR).