{"id":21487,"date":"2014-09-16T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2014-09-16T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:03:19","slug":"top-minnesota-obamacare-insurer-leaving-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21487\/top-minnesota-obamacare-insurer-leaving-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Minnesota ObamaCare Insurer Leaving Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/388101\/insurer-covered-nearly-60-percent-minnesota-obamacare-enrollees-drops-out-exchange\" target=\"_blank\">largest player on Minnesota\u2019s ObamaCare exchange is dropping out<\/a>, and not even the promise of federal subsidies can get it back.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today PreferredOne \u2013 an insurance company that covered 59 percent of Minnesota\u2019s ObamaCare population \u2013 announced that it will not offer health care plans next year paid for with ObamaCare subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the decision is being driven by high administrative costs associated with doing business with MNsure. Even after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/275305421.html\" target=\"_blank\">hiring an additional 50 workers<\/a> to handle the exchange\u2019s post-launch fixes and tweaks, PreferredOne says continuing to participate is financially unsustainable.<\/p>\n<p>The move makes it<a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/stories\/S3562806.shtml \" target=\"_blank\"> likely that MNsure\u2019s ObamaCare rates will jump<\/a> since PreferredOne sold the lowest cost option. Those rates will be released sometime in October \u2013 just weeks before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest player on Minnesota\u2019s ObamaCare exchange is dropping out, and not even the promise of federal subsidies can get it back. Earlier today PreferredOne \u2013 an insurance company that covered 59 percent of Minnesota\u2019s ObamaCare population \u2013 announced that it will not offer health care plans next year paid for with ObamaCare subsidies. Apparently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,3308,1829,2205,35],"class_list":["post-21487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-minnesota","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21491,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}