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New Academy Issue Brief Details Drivers of 2018 Individual Market Premium Changes

Drivers Include Health Care Costs, ACA Market Rule Uncertainty, Other Factors WASHINGTON—Increasing health care costs and uncertainties about the continued enforcement of Affordable Care…
Date Published: 07/12/2017
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Actuaries Identify Critical Issues in Senate Health Care Bill

WASHINGTON—The American Academy of Actuaries is drawing policymakers’ attention to issues raised by the U.S. Senate majority’s health care legislation, the Better Care…
Date Published: 07/05/2017
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Date Published: 06/13/2017
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Actuaries Examine How Changes to ACA Market Rules Would Affect Risk Adjustment

WASHINGTON—Proposals to alter the market rules applying to the individual and small group health insurance markets would likely require changing the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) risk…
Date Published: 05/10/2017
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Date Published: 05/03/2017
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Actuaries on Stabilizing the 2018 Individual Health Insurance Market: The Time for Policymakers to Act Is Now

WASHINGTON—Serious challenges to the stability and sustainability of the individual health insurance market for 2018 need immediate attention from federal policymakers, the Health Practice…
Date Published: 04/24/2017
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Why selling health insurance across state lines won’t work

Lexington Herald Leader (Ky.)
Date Published: 03/22/2017
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Actuaries Outline Implications of American Health Care Act for Medicaid and the Individual Market

WASHINGTON—The American Academy of Actuaries’ Individual and Small Group Markets Committee and Medicaid Subcommittee provided an actuarial perspective on the American Health Care Act…
Date Published: 03/22/2017
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Comment / Letter

MLR Work Group Comments on Proposed Rule for Preventive Services

Medical Loss Ratio Work Group’s comments to HHS on a proposed rule that requires issuers to offer a new type of individual health insurance policy covering contraceptive benefits. The comments focus…
Date Published: 03/28/2013
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Comment / Letter

Comment Letter on Health Insurance Market Reforms Proposed Rule

Individual and Small Group Market Task Force and Premium Review Work Group comments to CMS on a proposed rule regarding health insurance market reforms, which included modifications to the final rule…
Date Published: 12/21/2012
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Policy Paper

Voter Guide – Making Health Care Reform Work: Why Broad Participation is Necessary (Updated)

Voter guide to help explain why broad participation is necessary in the health insurance system to avoid higher premiums.
Date Published: 06/28/2012
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Comment / Letter

Letter to Massachusetts Senate on Amendment to H.3535

Premium Review Work Group letter to the Massachusetts Senate regarding an amendment to the state budget that would require the disapproval of any health insurance rates to be supported by “sound…
Date Published: 11/30/2011
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Comment / Letter

Comments to CMS on Proposed Rule on Exchanges

Exchanges Work Group comments to CMS in response to proposed regulations establishing health insurance exchanges and qualified health plans under the ACA. 
Date Published: 10/06/2011
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Comment / Letter

Comments to NAIC Regarding Rate Filing Disclosure Form

Premium Review Work Group comment letter on the NAIC Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee’s exposure draft of a rate filing disclosure form that is intended to facilitate the reporting of…
Date Published: 11/05/2010
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Comment / Letter

Comments to NAIC Regarding Rate Filing Disclosure Form

Premium Review Work Group comment letter on the NAIC Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee’s exposure draft of a rate filing disclosure form that is intended to facilitate the reporting of…
Date Published: 11/05/2010
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Comment / Letter

Letter to HHS on Grandfathered Coverage

Grandfathering Provisions Work Group letter to HHS in response to an interim final rule on the ACA provision related to the status of health insurance coverage as a grandfathered plan.
Date Published: 08/16/2010
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Critical Issues in Health Reform

In 2009, the Academy’s Health Practice Council introduced a new series of policy statements — Critical Issues in Health Reform — to provide an actuarial perspective to policymakers as they…
Date Published: 03/23/2010
Comment / Letter

Letter to Senate on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Health Practice Council letter to Sens. Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell that outlines key isuses that need to be considered when evaluating whether the Senate’s health care reform bill will lead to a…
Date Published: 11/20/2009
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