Comments on: One Way Insurers Could Improve Marketplace Risk Pools? Stop Cannibalizing Their Own Business

By: Policy Matters: What You Need To Know About Short-Term Health Plans – Reacle

Sun, 05 Aug 2018 01:43:08 +0000

[…] address concerns that short-term health plans were effectively promoting adverse selection, the Obama Administration reduced short-term health plans’ maximum length from one year to three […]

By: Drawbacks To The New Short-Term Healthcare Proposal

Drawbacks To The New Short-Term Healthcare Proposal — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:26:34 +0000

[…] The Commonwealth researchers claim that the problem may run deeper. “Allowing plans that are only viable for healthy people to be offered for more than three months will further syphon healthy individuals away from traditional health insurance, resulting in a sicker risk pool in the individual market, driving up premiums, and putting the individual insurance market at risk.” […]

By: The next stage in health reform – Brookings Institution | PersonalQu

The next stage in health reform – Brookings Institution | PersonalQu — Tue, 24 May 2016 16:45:29 +0000

[…] diversity of their exchange enrollments. It is important, in addition, that insurers, such as UHC, stop creaming off good risks from the ACA marketplaces by marketing limited coverage insurance products, such as dread disease […]

By: bob hertz

bob hertz — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 10:32:25 +0000

Thanks for your excellent website!

Short term plans do an acceptable job of covering large medical claims, albeit with no payments of any kind below the deductible.

With the short open enrollment periods of the ACA, and likely crackdown on Special Enrollment Periods, I think we have to have short term plans with us.