Modern Healthcare’s Shelby Livingston found a report that uncovered just how little short-term health plans paid out in medical benefits last year, and hoo boy, the numbers are low, Axios’ Bob Herman writes. By the numbers: Fewer than 87,000 people had a short-term healthplan last year, paying only $110 million in cumulative premiums — indicating this market is still extremely...
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Buyer beware: Inexpensive health plans often not what they seem
The Trump administration approved new insurance rules this week that will make it easier for people to buy skimpy health plans—and possibly wind up with insurance that falls short of their expectations. Credit: Petr Kratochvil/public domainUnder the federal health-care law, all plans sold to individuals and small businesses were required to cover a list of...