Every county in Ohio, a crucial swing state, is on track to lose at least two insurers compared to last year. All of the counties in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Arizona and Illinois are also expected to lose at least one option, according to Kaiser.
Four other Senate battlegrounds — Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Colorado — are slated to lose ObamaCare options in at least half of all counties.
The shrinking insurance options could cause higher premium increases, something many ObamaCare customers would be informed of just eight days before the election.
The blowback to premium increases could be a factor in close Senate races. One of the Senate GOP’s leading policy voices, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), has been urging his colleagues to talk about ObamaCare on the stump.
At a Senate Republican luncheon last week, Barrasso offered up some campaign-ready lines about ObamaCare, along with new poll data about the law’s unpopularity.
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