{"id":60533,"date":"2016-10-14T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60533"},"modified":"2016-10-13T22:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:17:46","slug":"you-can-keep-your-doctor-provided-your-doctor-is-a-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60533","title":{"rendered":"You Can Keep Your Doctor, Provided Your Doctor Is A Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obamacare’s state exchanges are melting down – some faster than others, none faster at the moment than Tennessee<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Seventy-three out of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties will have only one insurer on the exchange, meaning no meaningful competition whatsoever. In regions where BlueCross BlueShield is pulling out, there will be two remaining major carriers, Cigna<\/a> and Humana<\/a>.<\/span> The only large metro area with more options will be Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

Then there are the premiums. State regulators have already approved the highest annual rise in the nation, a weighted average of nearly 56%<\/a>, according to data at ACASignups.net. The rate increases authorized in late August include an average of 62% for BlueCross BlueShield, 46% for Cigna and 44% for Humana. The latter two companies could ask to revise their rates upward depending on how many former BlueCross consumers they pick up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea that Obamacare is a conspiracy designed to fail, to leave only “single payer” government healthcare as a viable option, is looking less and less like a conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obamacare’s state exchanges are melting down – some faster than others, none faster at the moment than Tennessee: Seventy-three out of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties will have only one insurer on the exchange, meaning no meaningful competition whatsoever. In regions where BlueCross BlueShield is pulling out, there will be two remaining major carriers, Cigna and Humana. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-mnsure-debacle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60534,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533\/revisions\/60534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}