How Much of the Cost Should the Patient Bear?
May 7, 2015
News Article
How Much of the Cost Should the Patient Bear?
Also published in Forbes Wed. May 6, 2015.
A striking feature of the insurance offered on the ObamaCare health insurance exchanges is the imposition of very high deductibles. For example, the law allows the deductible to be as high as $6,600 for an individual and $13,200 for a family in 2015. A Kaiser Foundation survey finds that on the average, deductibles in the exchange plans are about twice as high as the deductibles in a typical employer plan.
