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This Chart Shows How Many States Lost Obamacare Insurers. The Number Won’t Stun You.

Aaron Bandler
This Chart Shows How Many States Lost Obamacare Insurers. The Number Won’t Stun You.

A chart published by Axios shows the number of states that have lost Obamacare insurers between 2016 and 2017. The number is not good for defenders of the former president’s signature legislation:

As the above chart indicates, 25 states lost Obamacare insurers from 2016 to 2017. Only two states gained insurers. The remaining 12 states that have Obamacare exchanges saw no change in insurers. The state that saw the highest number of insurance losses was Texas, followed by Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, in descending order.

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