Fierce Healthcare June 28, 2019
With premiums falling slightly on average in 2019, insurers have seen a small decline in their margins in the first quarter of 2019. Still, a recent analysis suggests that the individual insurance market remains stable and insurers are generally profitable, despite the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty and expansion of loosely-regulated short-term plans.
A new KFF analysis looks at the state of the individual insurance market in the first three months of the year, and the first in which the ACA’s individual mandate penalty is no longer in effect.
At the beginning of 2019, insurance premiums fell slightly and may have dropped further if it were not for two major policy changes: Congress’ decision to reduce...
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