Thursday, April 24, 2014

Aetna: Half of Next Year's Premium Increases Due to Obama Admin's 'On the Fly' Change to the Law

This is from Jason Millman at the Washington Post:  
Bertolini said about half of the company's premium increases, whatever they turn out to be, will be attributable to "on the fly" regulatory changes made by the Obama administration. He cited as an example the administration's policy of allowing old health plans that were supposed to expire in 2014 to be extended another three years if states and insurers wanted to. ...