Two days before Thanksgiving, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter with her colleague Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the impact of Obamacare’s medical loss ratio rules on insurer consolidation.
It’s a striking, if tacit, admission of the law’s flaws by one of the nation’s leading progressives.
Obamacare’s medical loss ratio rules require insurers to spend 85% of the premiums they receive in the large-group market, and 80% in the individual and small-group markets, on beneficiaries’ medical claims. The intent was to cap insurers’ profits and spending on marketing and administration. Politicians could claim they were ensuring that consumers got good value for their premium dollars.
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Elizabeth Warren talks turkey about Obamacare’s perverse incentives
Sally C. Pipes
Two days before Thanksgiving, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a letter with her colleague Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the impact of Obamacare’s medical loss ratio rules on insurer consolidation.
It’s a striking, if tacit, admission of the law’s flaws by one of the nation’s leading progressives.
Obamacare’s medical loss ratio rules require insurers to spend 85% of the premiums they receive in the large-group market, and 80% in the individual and small-group markets, on beneficiaries’ medical claims. The intent was to cap insurers’ profits and spending on marketing and administration. Politicians could claim they were ensuring that consumers got good value for their premium dollars.
Click to read the full article in the Washington Examiner.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.