Rough day for Obamacare as another insurer quits in Virginia

Earlier today, the only remaining Obamacare insurer in most of Iowa announced it would probably stop selling plans there next year. This afternoon, there’s more trouble for the healthcare law in the Old Dominion, where Aetna will no longer sell plans beginning next year.

This means that at least 24 Virginia counties are likely to have only one choice of insurer on the exchanges next year, joining the roughly one-third of U.S. counties where Obamacare has already resulted in a local monopoly in the subsidized health insurance market as of this year.