The Oregon Medical Insurance Pool board is scheduled to quit next July, as the last reinsurance program expires at the end of this year. But the loss of that program, which reimburses insurers for their sickest customers, contributed to the high spike in insurance rates for 2017, and state regulators may ask the Legislature to restore the program. Other policy wonks think the market could be stabilized by requiring insurers like Regence to sell on the exchange rather than cherry pick the wealthy off-market customers.
Sep 1, 2016