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UnitedHealth Losing its Shirt, Forced to Exit Obamacare

<p>The largest health insurer in the country&comma; UnitedHealth has announced that they will be exiting from most ObamaCare exchanges in 2017 after admitting to losing &dollar;1 billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The healthcare provider projects that the losses for 2016 will be closer to &dollar;650 million versus their previous projection of &dollar;525 million&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>UnitedHealth&rsquo&semi;s CEO Stephen Hemsley stated that the company &ldquo&semi;cannot continue to broadly serve the market created by the Affordable Care Act&rsquo&semi;s coverage expansion due partly to the higher risk that comes with its customers&rdquo&semi; to the Associated Press&period; &ldquo&semi;Next year&comma; we will remain in only a handful of states&comma; and we will not carry financial exposure from exchanges into 2017&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Last November it looked like the company was ready to exit all Obamacare exchanges&comma; but as Hemsley stated they will still remain in a &ldquo&semi;handful&rdquo&semi; of states&period; However&comma; it is official that the company will be pulling out of Arkansas&comma; Michigan and Kansas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to a study done by the Kaiser Family Foundation&comma; if UnitedHealth was to pull out of every ACA exchange&comma; a whopping 1&period;1 million ObamaCare customers would only have one option of healthcare to pick from&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not to mention&comma; other big health insurance companies are reporting major losses from participating in ACA exchanges&period; So&comma; it is just a matter of time that companies like Aetna exit too&period; Aetna already plans to limit its ACA exchange participation in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Hill recently reported that Blue Cross Blue Shield is another to &ldquo&semi;have also raised the prospect of dropping off the marketplaces&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cigna is one of the few companies staying in the ACA exchanges in seven states and the company plans to &ldquo&semi;selectively expand&rdquo&semi; in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Obama administration refuses to see what a loss UnitedHealth is by stating the company is a &ldquo&semi;fairly small player on the ObamaCare marketplaces&period;&rdquo&semi; Again&comma; they are the largest healthcare provider in the country and have expanded to 34 states&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Luckily&comma; UnitedHealth is thriving in other product lines and plans to make comeback from its ObamaCare losses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You would think that Obama would see this as another major failure of the outrageously expensive Obamacare project&period; Besides the website being a glitchy system&comma; there are strict guidelines making it difficult for customers to sign up&period; To make matters worse&comma; there are plans to rewrite the Affordable Care Act again&comma; which will only make it even more challenging for users to sign up&period; And the cherry on the cake&quest; Premiums are evidently going to increase in 2017&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over the years&comma; the options on exchanges have been dwindling&comma; while becoming more expensive for less coverage&period; This is because companies are trying to recover from the losses&comma; but soon there won&rsquo&semi;t be any plans left&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With more major healthcare providers pulling out from exchanges&comma; this could finally be the end of ObamaCare&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><center><strong><br &sol;> To Hell with Obamacare&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This book was written by Joe Gilbertson of the Punching Bag Post Staff&period; This is the solution to the Obamacare fiasco&colon; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;amazon&period;com&sol;gp&sol;product&sol;1517719704&sol;ref&equals;as&lowbar;li&lowbar;tl&quest;ie&equals;UTF8&amp&semi;camp&equals;1789&amp&semi;creative&equals;9325&amp&semi;creativeASIN&equals;1517719704&amp&semi;linkCode&equals;as2&amp&semi;tag&equals;punbagpos-20&amp&semi;linkId&equals;RBIZUOKRHDNIYOP6" rel&equals;"nofollow">The Opposite of Obamacare&colon; How a free enterprise philosophy would dramatically reduce health care prices &&num;8211&semi; Paperback &dollar;13&period;95<&sol;a><img style&equals;"border&colon; none &excl;important&semi; margin&colon; 0px &excl;important&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ir-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;ir&quest;t&equals;punbagpos-20&amp&semi;l&equals;as2&amp&semi;o&equals;1&amp&semi;a&equals;1517719704" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1" height&equals;"1" border&equals;"0" &sol;> <&sol;strong><&sol;center><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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