I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO ELIMINATE FRAUD AND WASTE: Obamacare’s Death Spiral of Consumer Choice.

In 2016, 85 percent of all Obamacare enrollees had three insurers from which to choose. In 2017, that number drops to 62 percent. This year, an estimated 300,000 enrollees had only one insurer available to them, which comprised only 2 percent of overall enrollment. Next year, 2017, that number will grow to 2.3 million – an estimated 19 percent of all enrollees, an eightfold increase. The same percentage will only have two choices, up from 12 percent in 2016.

The figures look worse from a geographical perspective. Thirty-six percent of all counties in the United States will have two or fewer insurers for consumers to choose. Many counties in the South and Interior West will have only one insurer for 2017. For those living in rural counties, which already have a provider crisis, the news is particularly harsh.

People in those regions don’t vote for many Democrats.