Besides Ohio, Anthem operates for-profit Blue Cross plans in more than a dozen states. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“They own this health care system now,” said Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. If Anthem were to exit the federal health insurance exchanges entirely, “there could be hundreds of thousands of people without any option on the exchange,” said Cynthia Cox, an executive at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe exit leaves insurance regulators with the prospect that some of their residents may not be offered a plan in 2018. “For the past few years we have seen a weakening in the federal insurance marketplace as a number of companies have withdrawn from the exchange,” the Ohio insurance agency said in an email.

Source: New York Times June 06, 2017 18:30 UTC