Health Affairs : declared in Supporting The Individual Health Insurance Market

Michael Chernew and Christopher BarbeyAugust 7, 2017The status of the market for individual health insurance has attracted considerable scrutiny recently. A stable regulatory structureWithout stable rules, there cannot be stable markets. Public financial supportLike every other segment of the insurance market, the individual market requires some government regulation and significant subsidy to achieve stability. Moving ForwardThe ACA's framework is not the only, or even the best way to insure people in the individual market, but it certainly represented a step towards increasing coverage. A stable market requires stable rules and investment.

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File: Terri HallenbeckVermont-National Education Association supporters in May protesting a plan to change how health benefits are negotiatedA new commission charged with studying whether Vermont teachers should move to a statewide health insurance contract is taking shape.Gov. Phil Scott on Wednesday appointed David Provost, executive vice president for finance and administration at Middlebury College, to chair the panel. The legislature and the governor agreed to create the nine-member commission after deadlocking on the issue during this year's legislative session.Commissioners of the state Department of Financial Regulation and the Department of Taxes, who are Scott appointees, will serve on the panel or send a designee. Representatives of the Vermont-National Education Association, other labor organizations representing school employees, the Vermont School Boards Association and the Vermont Superintendents Association will also serve.The Republican governor supported shifting teachers' health care contracts from district-by-district negotiations to a statewide contract on the premise that a single plan would save money. Legislative Democratic leaders and the Vermont-NEA opposed the plan, arguing that it would violate collective bargaining rights that allow employees to negotiate benefits directly with their employer.The panel is scheduled to come up with recommendations by November 15.


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