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flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 10:50 PM Aug 2017

Anthem just dumped all individual ACA plans in L.A.

and the rest of CA except for 3 counties in the North. They have 80% of the market in LA I believe so that is a huge number who, like me got the email today citing uncertainty 😡

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still_one

(91,962 posts)
1. The uncertainty that the republicans have generated with the subsidies and the markets should not
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 10:55 PM
Aug 2017

surprise that this chaos would occur

flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
2. Yes but I am suspicious that the CEO of Anthem had
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:02 PM
Aug 2017

something to do with it too. He's a Trumper and Anthem could handle this and nit leave 100k people in the lurch.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
6. Should have let the GOP do the repeal and own it. The ACA will fail because of GOP sabotage
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:07 PM
Aug 2017

but it will still be labeled as the failure of Obamacare.

still_one

(91,962 posts)
7. I wouldn't doubt it flaming, but a letter was sent out by blue cross and other insurers last week to
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:17 PM
Aug 2017

congress telling them to stop this garbage, and specifically that the skinny bill would destroy the market place.

I don't know what is going on with Anthem in LA. I am in Northern California, but I am not under the market place, but when I look at Covered Ca, they still list Anthem as an insurer with their tool, but that is probably because they haven't updated the list.

Regardless, they play this garbage, the Single Payer bill that was put on hold in our legislature, may just happen sooner than later.


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flamingdem

(39,304 posts)
5. I think it is uncertainty
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:07 PM
Aug 2017

but also Anthem's way of operating - they were aggressive here so the other companies have crappy doctors, thanks Joseph Swedish NOT

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
9. Democratic State Attorney Generals led by NYAG Eric Schneiderman
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 11:23 PM
Aug 2017

are working on it.







BREAKING: The DC Circuit has granted our motion to intervene in legal defense of the health care subsidies @POTUS is trying to sabotage.
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