{"id":133453,"date":"2017-05-11T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/so-why-are-insurers-pulling-out-of-the-aca-exchanges-and-plans.html"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T15:19:52","slug":"so-why-are-insurers-pulling-out-of-the-aca-exchanges-and-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/so-why-are-insurers-pulling-out-of-the-aca-exchanges-and-plans.html","title":{"rendered":"So why are insurers pulling out of the ACA exchanges and plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;ve gone over this a number of times before, but this article does a decent job of pointing out some of the structural problems the ACA has had in various states &#8212; most of which have been where GOP opposition has screwed up the model under which the exchanges were to work. Rather than trying to fix it, Republicans at the federal and state level have been out to break the ACA since it was passed. Remember that every time Trump or Ryan or their cohorts talk about how the ACA is &quot;failing.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2017\/05\/why-so-many-insurers-are-leaving-obamacare\/526137\/?utm_source=atlgp'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/0Ga0DU0-WE4hS6C-tJSNdfc1dPpgBDHlHOvdXess00oYwj4NWnYHBthn6up_ruLFQHmby-4Ev6fH9tOaKSw183qT1PlQe7O8dCiwknky9kWbGKZN7-weR2nMBls6aGS1Rl3_JHFYEAhsNl36u670=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2017\/05\/why-so-many-insurers-are-leaving-obamacare\/526137\/?utm_source=atlgp'>Why Are So Many insurers Leaving Obamacare? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHow rejecting Medicaid and other government decisions have hurt insurance markets\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/E4GMo8uVaZb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;ve gone over this a number of times before, but this article does a decent job of pointing out some of the structural problems the ACA has had in various states &#8212; most of which have been where GOP opposition has screwed up the model under which the exchanges were to work. Rather than trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/so-why-are-insurers-pulling-out-of-the-aca-exchanges-and-plans.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So why are insurers pulling out of the ACA exchanges and plans?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39754,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/getting-the-aca-to-work.html","url_meta":{"origin":133453,"position":0},"title":"Getting the ACA to work","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Nov-13 8:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Three governors write about how the ACA is working in their state.'People keep asking us why our states have been successful. 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