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Uncertainty over which health insurers will continue coverage under the Affordable Care Act in New Hampshire ended Wednesday, with three companies confirming their participation before the deadline. ... Anthem, Harvard Pilgrim, Ambetter by NH Healthy Families all had indicated earlier this year they planned to continue in the marketplace, but in recent weeks declined to reaffirm their commitments. All three, however, had done so by Wednesday’s deadline for states to submit all 2018 plan information, other than rates, to the federal government. (Ramer, 8/16)

Anthem and Harvard Pilgrim have confirmed they will offer plans on the Obamacare health exchange in New Hampshire for 2018, along with Ambetter, state officials announced Wednesday. But Minuteman Health, which announced in June it was pulling out of the New Hampshire market in 2018, said its senior management wasn’t able to meet Wednesday’s deadline to secure licensing approval for a new health insurance company, Minuteman Insurance Company, to offer policies on the exchange. (Cousineau, 8/16)

The New Hampshire health insurance marketplace will have three companies in 2018, after Anthem and Harvard Pilgrim confirmed Wednesday that they will offer plans through the exchange. Anthem covers about 27,000 state residents, and Harvard Pilgrim covers about 11,000 residents through HealthCare.gov and the state’s Medicaid expansion program. (8/16)

It's looking like New Hampshire customers buying individual plans on the state's health insurance exchange will have their choice of three carriers next year: Anthem, Harvard Pilgrim and Ambetter. ... But the roughly 23,000 people currently covered by Massachusetts-based Minuteman Health will have to find another option in 2018. (McDermott, 8/16)

Minuteman Health Inc., a small Boston-based health insurer, has failed to raise enough money to continue selling plans next year, forcing thousands of people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to find new health insurance for 2018. ... Insurance companies are required by state regulators to keep a certain level of cash on hand to pay claims. (Dayal McCluskey, 8/16)

The uncertainty about the future of national health policy reverberated in Massachusetts Wednesday when state regulators delayed approving insurance rates for individuals and small businesses that are set to kick in Jan. 1. ...Without the subsidies — expected to total $132 million in Massachusetts next year — insurers would be forced to sharply increase their prices, they say. (Dayal McCluskey, 8/16)

Iowans who buy their own health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchange would see their rates increase nearly 57 percent next year under a revised rate proposed Wednesday. The proposal is 13 percentage points higher than previously was estimated by Medica, the one remaining carrier selling individual policies in Iowa next year. Medica attributed the additional increase to uncertainties over federal health care subsidies, the insurer said in a release. (Clayworth, 8/16)

If Congress and President Trump don’t create more certainty in the insurance market, there will be consequences. They have threatened a subsidy that helps make the Obamacare exchange market run, but they haven’t provided any repair to the current system. (Hart, 8/16)

The demise of Republicans’ Obamacare repeal effort is putting more pressure on the Trump administration to allow states more leeway to carve out major pieces of the 2010 health care law. ... More requests could follow to force people who get subsidized insurance to pay part of the cost based on their incomes and subject those who’ve let their coverage lapse to waiting periods before they can re-enroll. (Colliver, 8/16)