Here’s what you should know.
1. The insurer is part of the larger Baylor Scott & White Health. It dropped its plans citing a “higher risk than other plans.”
2. More than 44,000 people in Texas will have their plans discontinued.
3. Franklin Potts, a professor at Baylor University, said the insurer’s decision to leave was not surprising. “No private insurance company would want to insure anybody with a pre-existing condition,” he said.
4. The U.S. Supreme Court found that the ACA cannot force insurance companies to participate in the exchanges.
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