Two of the three insurers in North Carolina's Affordable Care Act marketplace will pull its plans from the exchange in 2017, reports The Washington Post.
The move leaves more than 250,000 North Carolina residents without health plans they bought under the ACA. Almost all of the state's 100 counties will only have one insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, selling ACA policies when the exchanges open again next month, according to the article.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina also considered leaving the state's exchange, but instead decided to increase its rates by nearly 25 percent, the report states.
North Carolina is not alone. The Washington Post reports that Alabama and South Carolina will also have one insurer statewide, and nearly three-fourths of Florida's counties and more than four-fifths of Mississippi's will be down to one insurer.
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