The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a map Tuesday afternoon of the expected health insurance participation on the 2018 Obamacare state exchanges, and the results do not bode well for many consumers.
Some 49 counties across four states will be left without an insurance provider on the state exchanges and as many as 1,300 counties — approximately 40 percent of counties nationwide — could be left with only one insurance provider in 2018, CMS reports.
CMS anticipates that as many as 2.4 million individuals who rely on the Obamacare state exchanges for health insurance will be left without any choice in insurance providers and are at risk of losing the care they need.
“We continue to see a decline in issuer participation in the Health Insurance Exchanges leaving consumers with fewer and fewer insurance options,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in a statement Tuesday afternoon released to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I am deeply concerned about the crisis situation facing the individual market in many states across the nation.”
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