Sun Journal, ME - Over
66,000 Mainers have signed up for health insurance with Maine Community
Health Options, an increase of 65 percent for the state's only health
insurance co-op.
Of those people, 57,600 got insurance through
the federal marketplace established by the Affordable Care Act, also
known as Obamacare. That means for the second year in a row, MCHO will
insure the majority of Mainers on the marketplace.
There are 23
[health insurance] co-ops throughout the country. Rating company A.M.
Best has said that, as of last fall, Lewiston-based MCHO is the only one
making money.
As of Feb. 18, nearly 75,000 Mainers had signed up
for insurance through the marketplace, according to the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. About 57,600 of those Mainers chose one
of MCHO's insurance plans, according to preliminary numbers released by
the co-op Tuesday. However, MCHO's figures include only people who have
paid their first bill.
With several days left for consumers to
pay for March 1 coverage, he expects that MCHO will ultimately be
responsible for about 80 percent of the marketplace.
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