Modern Healthcare quoted Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about strategies to improve the ACA’s insurance exchange. Problems range from people dropping coverage after receiving expensive medical services to an absence of young, healthy individuals in the system.
Ario said strengthening the mandate to get broad participation of younger and healthier consumers is what actuaries consider “the gamechanger.”
Ario also explained that “everyone would agree that if you increase subsidies, that will stabilize the program.”
Read the article here.