"The fully insured groups that remain are...

...very difficult groups to underwrite. They’re very sick and expensive on average, so premiums are going up fairly quickly. So putting this cohort into the individual market dampens that."

—David Anderson, a research associate at the Duke University Margolis Center for Health Policy, talked with AIS’s Health Plan Weekly about Maine’s decision to merge its small group and individual markets, and the advantages it could lend.

 

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