Health care insurance trouble for 2017

An article in USA Today on 30 August has the disconcerting headline: "Health care choices choked further" with the subtitle: "More than 2 million people could be bumped from insurance plans in 2017".

The reason: insurers are leaving the states' marketplaces. This means that people in 14 states, or 17% of Americans, will have only one insurer remaining, which means they will have no choices, because there will be no competition. One county in Arizona has no insurers at all. North Carolina is worried that an insurer, that is the only option for 90% of counties, will leave the state.

ACA signup period (open enrollment) starts November 1.