Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issues
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چکیده
In 2017, the Affordable Care Act’s nongroup marketplaces saw premium increases averaging 21 percent, with substantially higher increases in some states.1 For the 2017 plan year, several insurers left the individual marketplaces (and, in some cases, individual markets as a whole), creating many more rating regions with only one or two insurers. These rating regions, as a result, have little insurer competition. Often these rating regions also have considerable provider consolidation—too few providers for meaningful competition. In this brief, we look at the characteristics of rating regions with one or two insurers in 2017. Our main findings are as follows:
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