This is actually a war on currently HEALTHY people as well. If the carriers throw up their hands and bail completely, NO ONE will be able to enroll.
The Achilles heel of the #ACA exchange structure is that participation is VOLUNTARY on the part of the carriers. If every carrier in a given region/state decides that offering individual market plans is too risky for them (whether justified or not)...
...there’s not much which can be done unless you tie participation to MCO/MA contracts or whatever (which I support, but which isn’t the case in most states).
Even then, a carrier might STILL refuse to participate and accept being shut out of the MCA/MA market as well if they REALLY feel it’s too risky or too much of a headache. And the Trump Admin is doing EVERYTHING they can to make it too much of a headache.
