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Dozens of counties lack an insurer ahead of HealthCare.gov rate-filing deadline

Modern Healthcare: Ahead of this week's deadline for insurers to file 2018 HealthCare.gov rates, dozens of U.S. counties lack health insurance options. Insurers must say on Wednesday whether they plan to sell coverage on the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges next year. The deadline is the first look at the state of the federal marketplace for 2018: how much rates could go up and which counties are at risk of having no insurers. To date, there are 44 U.S. counties in danger of having no insurers selling coverage on the ACA marketplaces next year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. In those counties, 31,268 people are enrolled in coverage; almost all of those counties are Missouri or Ohio.

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