Health Issue Brief Examines Access, Affordability, Choice, and Competition in the Individual Market

An issue brief from the Individual and Small Group Markets Committee, Ensuring Access, Affordability, Choice, and Competition in the Individual Health Insurance Market, provides an overview of how the laws and rules governing the individual health insurance market support the goals of increasing access to coverage, improving affordability, enhancing consumer choice, and encouraging insurer competition. It also discusses how changes to these laws and rules could affect the achievement of these goals.