To Curb Rising Health Insurance Costs, Some States Try ‘Reinsurance Pools’

(By Michael Ollove for Stateline, an initiative of The PEW Charitable Trusts)

A couple of years ago, the health insurance exchange in Minnesota – MNsure – was in deep trouble. Health insurance premiums for individual policies had shot up by as much as 67 percent, among the steepest increases in the country.  Insurers were abandoning the market, leaving 116,000 Minnesotans with scant choices. Continue reading article here…

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