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In 5 States, There's Only One Insurer Choice for ObamaCare

Forget about keeping your doctor. Forget about much of anything. ObamaCare is speedily contracting down to a black hole of extremely limited choices. How limited? Try no choice at all.

So much for choice. In many parts of the country, Obamacare customers will be down to one insurer when they go to sign up for coverage next year on the public exchanges.

A central tenet of the federal health law was to offer a range of affordable health plans through competition among private insurers. But a wave of insurer failures and the recent decision by several of the largest companies, including Aetna, to exit markets are leaving large portions of the country with functional monopolies for next year.

According to an analysis done for The Upshot by the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform, 17 percent of Americans eligible for an Affordable Care Act plan may have only one insurer to choose next year. The analysis shows that there are five entire states currently set to have one insurer, although our map also includes two more states because the plans for more carriers are not final. By comparison, only 2 percent of eligible customers last year had only one choice.

As ObamaCare continues burning through insurers, things will get worse, leading to the inevitable push for full socialization and "Medicare for All". It's all going according to plan.


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