Health Affairs January 12, 2018
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series stemming from the Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on December 12, 2017. The conference brought together leading experts to review major developments in health law over the previous year, and preview what is to come.
Congress has been busy enacting and proposing changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s regulation of private health insurance, from repealing the tax on individuals without minimum essential coverage to the Alexander-Murray bill intended to shore up the private market. These changes do not play well together. Three reasons are explored here: the great wall, which divides advocates with different goals; whipsawed insurance markets, in which insurers are...