Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Coverage in Affordable Care Act health plans wanes since winter

The Washington Post reports:
Nearly 1 in 4 of the Americans who picked a health plan this year through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces have dropped or lost their coverage, according to new federal data.

A report, released Tuesday by federal health officials, shows that 9.9 million people were paying, as of the end of June, for health plans they had gotten through the federal and state-run insurance exchanges created under the health-care law.

Those people reflect a decline from the roughly 12.7 million consumers who signed up for a 2015 health plan. The vast majority signed up during an open enrollment period that ended in February and the rest through special enrollment circumstances since then.

The figures also mean that health plans sold on the exchanges are covering slightly fewer people as the year goes on.
What will become of ObamaCare exchanges if a future President doesn't "promote" it???