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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Aetna CEO: Obamacare markets are in a 'death spiral'
By PAUL DEMKO 02/15/17 09:54 AM EST Updated 02/15/17 01:26 PM EST
Obamacare is in a “death spiral,” the influential CEO of Aetna, Mark
Bertolini, declared Wednesday morning.
Bertolini’s doomsday prophesy: More insurers will pull out of the
government-run marketplaces in the coming weeks and many areas will have no
insurers to provide Affordable Care Act coverage in 2018.
“It’s not going to get any better; it’s getting worse,” Bertolini said
in an interview at a Wall Street Journal event.
But he declined to say whether Aetna would completely pull out of Obamacare
markets next year, though he said the population of covered people in the
marketplaces has skewed older and sicker than expected.
Bertolini's broadside came just moments before the Trump administration
released a proposed rule designed to make changes to Obamacare regulations
that are designed to temporarily stabilize the law's insurance marketplaces
as Republicans pull together a replacement plan. The proposal outlines
several policies sought by health insurers that would shore up the market
until Congress settles on an Obamacare repeal plan and possibly a
replacement
Humana, which had already significantly limited its exchange footprint this
year, announced Tuesday that it would completely pull out of the exchange
markets next year after determining its customer base would still be
unprofitable. That followed major pullbacks this year from other national
insurers, including Aetna and UnitedHealth Group. |
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