Exchange insurers may seek enrollment caps to stay afloat

As uncertainty swirls around the future of the Affordable Care Act, insurers interested in continuing to offer plans on the exchanges may seek to cap enrollment in an effort to stay financially afloat.Insurers have retreated from the exchanges in the last few years, and those that have remained are seeing their enrollment increase. But the influx of members hasn’t led to rising profits, as many exchange enrollees are saddled with ailments that are expensive to treat.The issue is only expected to worsen next year as 36 counties in Indiana, Ohio and Nevada are at risk of having no marketplace insurers, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which tracks insurer participation. The CMS projected that as many as 1,200 counties, nearly 40% of counties nationwide, could have only one issuer