While everyone was focused on the Russians and the Nazis and any other Indiana Jones villains that Donald Trump has befriended over the past few years, there was an honest-to-goodness breakthrough in the world of health care. Following the Senate's cruel and failed attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare, as well as their subsequent crueler, yet still failing attempt to simply repeal the law, there was a great deal of speculation about what the future of the Affordable Care Act would be.

Donald Trump threatened to choke the legislation by refusing to make payments designed to keep the markets afloat, and though he was (thankfully) talked out of that idea, there were still some real concerns about some issues that would face Obamacare. One such issue was the "bare county problem," which saw insurers pull out of "failing" markets, leaving people in certain counties without a way to buy health insurance. This was an unforeseen issue with Obamacare. Because the law is built in such a way that people have to buy from private insurers, but insurers aren't required to offer service in an area they don't want to, we were left with what looked like a host of counties with no options. It was an issue that the Trump administration had been touting as proof that the system was failing.

One problem, though, is that the system wasn't actually failing. Yesterday an insurer stepped up in the last "bare county" in the United States, meaning that you can buy into Obamacare literally everywhere in the nation.

So how did this happen? Whom do we have to thank? Were there crusading activists? Executives and government officials putting pressure on insurers? Well, yeah. Of course. But according to The New York Times, the real reason these companies have stepped up to offer coverage is a market-driven one: They think they can make money.

Economists argued that the bare county problem didn’t make much sense, at least in theory. It’s typically easy for a company to make money as a monopoly, especially if the government will pay most of the bills... Carriers also recognized advantages in being the sole provider in a given place. “There are a number of companies that are seeing a business opportunity,” said Katherine Hempstead, a senior adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who studies insurance markets.

Now, the insurer contracts aren't finalized, and Donald Trump could change his mind and withhold those aforementioned subsidies, which would likely lead to some bare counties, but that wouldn't be a failure of Obamacare. That would be Donald Trump sabotaging Obamacare. That's a major and important difference. After all, Obamacare and its market-based system is about as "Republican" a health-care solution as there can be. It's hard not to imagine them crowing about the success of the markets if it weren't for the fact that they blindly (and bigotedly) opposed any and everything Barack Obama attempted to do in office.

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