Sunday, August 12, 2007

AB 8 and Unintended Consequences: Guarantee Issue

AB 8 requires individual health insurance carriers to accept virtually all applicants for coverage (a practice called “guarantee issue”). Because it empowers the Major Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) to establish criteria which would divert three-to-five percent of applicants to a high risk pool MRMIB manages, there’s a small safety valve. But it is small [...]

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[Source: The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog]

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