The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has produced a report cheerleading the results, so far, of the $250 million it is giving to states to impose “rate review”. The results are underwhelming: $703 million dollars cut from $110.5 billion of premiums last year. Because it comes from a self-congratulatory press release, this reduction of less than one percent of premium must be the best estimate they could get, after strangling the data until it confessed to something.
Read the entire article at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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