50,000 BCBSNC grandfathered customers will have to switch to ACA plans

About 50,000 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina customers who have been able to keep their existing health plans since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, will have to transition to ACA plans effective Jan. 1, 2018. “Because no new customers have joined this pool since 2010, the group as a whole has gotten older and sicker," BCBSNC stated in a blog post. "That means they have also become more expensive to insure. And as the number of customers continues to dwindle, the…
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