How the New ObamaCare Medical Loss Ratio Regs will Kill Bronze Plans and HSAs

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 29th at 01:21 PM  | 

Roy Ramthun has written a great paper on HHS’s proposed-final regulation on Medical Loss Ratio, and how it will impact HSAs and other Bronze Plans in the exchanges: The final medical loss ratio (MLR) regulations will likely create a vacuum for affordable coverage that cannot be filled by Bronze plans under the state insurance exchanges. If the “essential benefits” and “actuarial value” requirements are equally | Read More »

The New Medical Loss Ratio Rule means No Bronze Plans, and No HSAs in ObamaCare Exchanges

By: Dan Perrin (Diary)  |  December 5th at 09:35 AM  | 

The urge of government health care bureaucrats to impose their will on the market, regardless of warnings and repeated petitioning for redress for relief, overpowered petitions in the latest medical loss ratio (MLR) rule by HHS. The result of the new rule will mean one thing: no bronze plans, at all, in the ObamaCare exchanges. (Bronze plans are the low cost plan that ObamaCare envisioned | Read More »