BREAKING: @Centene will cover residents in NV's rural counties on Obamacare exchange, help avoid crisis:https://t.co/HkMQVlbGem
— Nevada Independent (@TheNVIndy) August 15, 2017
Now let’s hope that they Silver Gap instead of Silver Spam themselves so that more people can get good deals.
There are two counties, one each in Wisconsin and Ohio, where there are no announced insurers for the Exchange. I am betting with no inside knowledge that someone will take these orphans on. They should be able to monopoly price with almost no pushback from the state insurance commissioner and choose their own risk pool by product offering choices.
This is what happens when state regulators give a damn. Good work Centene. Good work Gov. Sandoval.
Cheryl Rofer
Yay! Good news! We need that!
Yarrow
Thanks for the post, David. Always nice to see good news.
What happens when they don’t?
Ian G.
Maybe if the party of free market stops causing deliberate chaos in the markets, we won’t have these potential crises in the future.
dollared
Looking at the map, the county in Wisconsin is a very tough battle. It’s a tiny county – a former Indian reservation converted to a county in the reformist early 70s, filled with native Americans and a few retirees. I guess the good news is the number of uninsured from that gap probably measure in the hundreds – Medicaid, even at Wisconsin’s ridiculous ceiling, Medicare, and the casino employers will cover the vast majority in that county.
Mart
Centene has been building skyscrapers (another one under construction in St. Louis/Clayton, MO), building claims processing centers (one built in Ferguson, MO in response to the Mike Brown riots), and hiring boatloads of folks since the ACA was passed. A huge job creator by taking advantage of evil government regulation. I know David says they are not the best insurance company in the world, but they have brought jobs to poor brown folks (and a lot of rich white one’s too).
Ohio Mom
Please remember to tell us when someone steps in to cover those two counties in Ohio and Wisconsin. Well, TBH, I’m only interested in Ohio.
Shalimar
@Ohio Mom: I didn’t really have any interest in the Wisconsin county before reading what dollared wrote. It was just a data point, now it sounds like an interesting place. It’s fascinating what obscure info you can learn here.