{"id":71993,"date":"2017-05-12T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71993"},"modified":"2017-05-11T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T12:39:17","slug":"71993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71993","title":{"rendered":"Another Healthcare Insurer Leaves ObamaCare Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time it\u2019s Aetna.\u00a0 They\u2019ve just announced that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/2017\/05\/10\/aetna-to-completely-pull-out-obamacare-exchanges-by-2018.html\">2017 is the last year they\u2019ll participate in the ObamaCare healthcare insurance exchanges<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 They will not offer policies for 2018 on those exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 Last year, in 15 states Aetna lost <em>nearly $700 million<\/em> on policies issued through said exchanges.\u00a0 This year, they\u2019re predicted to lose <em>nearly $200 million in only 4 states<\/em> (VA, DE, IA, NE) &#8211; obviously, on substantially reduced enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a term for companies whose business practices consistently lose money by the ton.\u00a0 That term is, \u201cBankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And no, Gruber:\u00a0 this isn\u2019t Trump\u2019s fault.\u00a0 It\u2019s because the whole asinine system is an abomination that is so structurally flawed it cannot possibly succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree stuff\u201d \u2013 <u>isn\u2019t<\/u>.\u00a0 Someone, somewhere, pays for it.<\/p>\n<p>And Aetna just said, &#8220;Find another patsy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time it\u2019s Aetna.\u00a0 They\u2019ve just announced that 2017 is the last year they\u2019ll participate in &hellip; <a title=\"Another Healthcare Insurer Leaves ObamaCare Exchanges\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71993\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Healthcare Insurer Leaves ObamaCare Exchanges<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,46,238,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-barack-obama","category-government-incompetence","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}