Health Care Exchanges

Competition heats up on health care exchanges for 2015, By Jayne O’Donnell and Kaitlyn Krasselt, USA Today: “Insurance companies are gingerly moving onto health care exchanges in some competition-deprived states, and they are requesting rate increases that are largely in line with pre-Obamacare years, state filings show. A few big and many smaller insurers avoided the 2014 state- and federal-run health care exchanges that sold individual insurance plans as required under the new law. Some blame these insurer absences for higher rates than many people expected under the Affordable Care Act, but that’s likely to change for the 2015 plan year, experts say. ‘There’s a lot more competition now than there was prior to the advent of the ACA . . .”