Kaiser Permanente, the $61 billion system that includes health plans, hospitals and medical groups, is “absolutely” sticking with the exchanges over the long term, Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson told Modern Healthcare on Wednesday.
Kaiser covers about 600,000 people in the individual market, a vast majority of whom have bought their health plans through the online exchanges. Most of Kaiser's ACA enrollees live in California. Across the country, there are about 11.1 million people with exchange coverage, and an estimated 9 million people have purchased individual plans off the exchanges without subsidies.
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