(Bloomberg) -- Obamacare plans will be sold in every part of the U.S. next year after an insurer agreed to do business in a small Ohio county, overcoming predictions that some Americans wouldn’t have access to coverage under the law in 2018.
Ohio announced Thursday that health insurer CareSource will offer Affordable Care Act coverage next year in Paulding County. The county, in the northwest corner of the state, had been left without ACA coverage for 2018 after Anthem Inc. said in June it would pull out.
State regulators have been negotiating with insurers to sell plans in counties where other plans, including many of the large, publicly traded companies, pulled back from the law.While people in places without Obamacare plans would have been able to buy health insurance, they wouldn’t have access to the subsidized coverage that’s available under the law.
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