# Professor Michael Dickstein discusses how insurers quitting Obamacare will impact rural America

1 Faculty News August 31, 2016 ![VoxEU logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030499.jpg?itok=Qjpc4sQk)>

Excerpt from [Vox](http://www.vox.com/2016/8/31/12646348/insurers-quit-obamacare-rural-america) -- "'It’s tough in these rural markets, because it’s not like these rural markets were really competitive to begin with before ACA,' said [Michael Dickstein](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/michael-dickstein), an economist at New York University who has studied insurers’ participation in the health law’s rural markets."

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