The administration has just increased the amount it will play plans under one of the “3 R’s” of Obamacare. Reinsurance, risk corridors, and risk adjustment are three mechanisms the administration uses to protect insurers from losing money in Obamacare.
Last year, I focused my efforts on limiting risk corridors, which exposed taxpayers to a potentially unlimited liability. This had a largely successful legislative result in Congress. Now, reinsurance has become a problem. As Ed Haislmaier of The Heritage Foundation has explained, reinsurance taxes all plans, including those covering the employer-based group market, to reduce risk in Obamacare.
Well, the administration collected more money than it expected from this tax.
Read the entire entry 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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