(Bloomberg) -- Obamacare plans will be sold in every partof the U.S. next year after an insurer agreed to do business in asmall Ohio county, overcoming predictions that some Americans wouldn’t have access to coverageunder the law in 2018.

Ohio announced Thursday that health insurer CareSource willoffer Affordable Care Act coverage next year in Paulding County.The county, in the northwest corner of the state, had been leftwithout ACA coverage for 2018 after Anthem Inc. said in June itwould pull out.

State regulators have been negotiating with insurers to sellplans in counties where other plans, including many of the large,publicly traded companies, pulled back from the law.While people inplaces without Obamacare plans would have been able to buy healthinsurance, they wouldn’t have access to the subsidized coveragethat’s available under the law.

“Our decision to offer coverage in the bare counties speaks toour mission and commitment to the marketplace and serving those whoare in need of health care coverage,” said CareSource ChiefExecutive Officer Pamela Morris, in a statement with the stateannouncing the expansion.

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Ohio’s insurance regulators have found insurers to cover about20 counties that could have been left without Obamacare coverage.Without new plans, about 11,000 people who bought Obamacarecoverage in the counties would have been unable to in 2018,according to the state.

“There is a lot of uncertainty facing consumers when it comes tohealth insurance and these announcements will provide importantrelief,” Ohio Department of Insurance Director Jillian Froment saidin the statement.

Even though all counties are now covered, consumers still facefewer choices in some places, because of the pullbacks. In manycounties, they have only one insurer to choose from -- limiting thecompetition among plans that the law was supposed to offer.

The Trump administration, which has backed efforts to repeal theAffordable Care Act, had pointed to the potentially bare countiesas evidence the law was failing. A request for comment from theU.S. Health and Human Services Department wasn’t immediatelyreturned.

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