{"id":10086,"date":"2018-04-09T08:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2018-04-09T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:05:36","slug":"to-curb-rising-health-insurance-costs-some-states-try-reinsurance-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10086","title":{"rendered":"To Curb Rising Health Insurance Costs, Some States Try &#8216;Reinsurance Pools&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael Ollove for Stateline, an initiative of\u00a0The PEW Charitable Trusts)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #636363; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Whitney SSm A', 'Whitney SSm B', 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Arial, Helvetica, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: -1px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">A couple of years ago, the health insurance exchange in Minnesota \u2013 MNsure \u2013 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.\u00a0 Insurers were abandoning the market, leaving 116,000 Minnesotans with scant choices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2018\/04\/09\/to-curb-rising-health-insurance-costs-some-states-try-reinsurance-pools?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=61943264&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_tjvG9p38CWITMIJ7DjeIRXaXGDgMaWGe-rdb39sVLB4ychHt6Nfxoss8tYTa_AtDhyAYJiVBnLSZhgZcZd6p-Ru7avg&amp;_hsmi=61943264\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3900\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo-300x43.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Pew-Logo.png 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael Ollove for Stateline, an initiative of\u00a0The PEW Charitable Trusts) A couple of years ago, the health insurance exchange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}