The Daily Caller reports.
Excerpt:
The largest insurer with the lowest premium rates on Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange is dropping out because the government health-exchange is unsustainable, the company announced Tuesday.
PreferredOne Health Insurance told MNsure, the state-run exchange, Tuesday morning that it would not continue to offer its popular insurance plans on the marketplace in 2015.
[…]“Our MNsure individual product membership is only a small percentage of the entire PreferredOne enrollment but is taking a significant amount of our resources to support administratively,” the company said in a statement. “We feel continuing on MNsure was not sustainable and believe this is an important step to best serve all PreferredOne members.”
PreferredOne was Minnesota’s largest exchange insurer with 59 percent of individual MNsure sign-ups, according to KSTP. Another four insurance companies — Blue Cross Blue Shield, HealthPartners, Medica and UCare — will continue to offer plans on the exchange next year.
This leaves Minnesota Obamacare customers in a tricky situation. PreferredOne had significantly lower rates than any other insurer on the exchange. When these plans disappear, customers will see a significant rate hike if they choose to continue on the Obamacare exchange, independent of yearly rate hikes.
Minnesota is scheduled to announce premium rates for 2015 Obamacare plans in October and signs point to looming price hikes that will hit Minnesotans doubly hard.
The administration costs are too high.
I noticed that Minnesota has a Senate election this year, and that comedian Al Franken is up for re-election, and he is leading by 9 points. Maybe Minnesota will learn something from their rate hikes and stop voting in a clown who voted for Obamacare. One can hope that money will cause them to learn their lesson.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
“Maybe Minnesota will learn something from their rate hikes and stop voting in a clown who voted for Obamacare. ”
As a life-long Minnesotan, I can say this with first hand experience: we aren’t that smart.
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I don’t think that those who have been brainwashed by the government schools, excessively Communistic media, and godless HollyWeird in ANY state have much of a chance of connecting the dots to understand why liberalism consistently fails. The fact that nut jobs like Franken, Pelosi, Reid et al consistently are re-elected seems to prove this point. This will be sold off by liberal fascists as a failure of capitalism, not government. In discussing these things with liberal friends and relatives, this is what they say: “It’s the big bad corporations and evil insurers’ faults that Obamacare is failing.” Is it too much to say that liberals literally worship the government?
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