{"id":6052,"date":"2017-03-05T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2017-03-03T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T18:03:53","slug":"invisible-high-risk-pools-how-congress-can-lower-premiums-and-deal-with-pre-existing-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6052","title":{"rendered":"Invisible High-Risk Pools: How Congress Can Lower Premiums And Deal With Pre-Existing Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by Joel Allumbaugh, Tarren Bragdon and Josh Archambault for Health <em>Affairs<\/em> blog, posted March 2, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>As Congress and the Trump administration move forward with plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they are looking for proven state-led reforms that maintain access for those with pre-existing conditions in the current exchange market while also lowering premiums for everyone buying insurance in the individual market. <a href=\"http:\/\/healthaffairs.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/invisible-high-risk-pools-how-congress-can-lower-premiums-and-deal-with-pre-existing-conditions\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=43802681&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_u32h74KXceBLkjHUUlzYdHVnLQsClY1kyrPhTvSlpOEzFwmtCOgcCSTADorWNLb6onwdATmdZn_41EbHXYC3LGajxbA&amp;_hsmi=43802681\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Copyright \u00a92015\u00a0<em>Health Affairs<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Project HOPE \u2013 The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Joel Allumbaugh, Tarren Bragdon and Josh Archambault for Health Affairs blog, posted March 2, 2017) As Congress and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","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=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}