Very interesting article from The Washington Post online - interesting from an insurance perspective, and from the perspective of how Washington plays its game.
The Obama administration has eliminated the long-term care insurance program from the 2010 health care law.
"The program was to be entirely self-financed with the premiums participants paid. Obama officials said that presented them with a problem: If they designed a benefits package generous enough to meet the law’s requirements, they would have had to set premiums so high that few healthy people would enroll. And without a large share of healthy people in the pool, the CLASS plan would have become even more expensive, forcing the government to raise premiums even higher, to the point of the program’s collapse."
As the article says, this will also affect deficit-reduction plans associated with the health-care law.
- Rick
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