Thursday, July 14, 2016

renewal season

The next few weeks we will be getting the long anticipated 4th quarter small group rates. Great news for most employers is there are decreases this year in rates!
It amazes me that insurance carriers are so willing to decrease small group rates yet drastically increase individual health rates. The small group rates were designed to be no different than individual plans, except the employers owned the policies and could add/remove employees according to hire dates and terminations.
This is just a good sign that those who purchase individual health insurance are typically the sickest part of our population.
Makes me wonder what this data will do and how the government and health insurers will react. Or will everyone just ignore it?

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