EDITORIAL: Action needed to rescue ACA exchange
Humana, the sole ACA exchange insurer remaining in the
Though the company remains profitable overall, Humana has lost money on exchange policies. Industry experts estimate the exchanges' risk pools need 40 percent of policyholders to be relatively young and healthy to be profitable; last year they made up only 28 percent of the risk pools.
About 40,000 East Tennesseans who rely on the Affordable Care Act for health insurance could lose coverage.
The future of the law is the subject of a town hall meeting titled "ACA: Repeal, Replace or Repair?" at
Panelists include
Several elected officials, including
"This is not a partisan issue or a partisan meeting, nor is it a rally or protest," Rogero wrote in a guest column published last weekend by the
The ACA has been successful in its primary goal of providing access to insurance to more Americans. At least 20 million people who did not have insurance before the law went into effect now have coverage, and more would be covered if
Alexander and his colleagues in the
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