HCFO Findings Brief: Regulating the Medical Loss Ratio: Implications for the Individual Market

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Vol. XIV, No. 2
April 2011
HCFO

How will the minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act impact the individual market for health insurance? Jean Abraham, Ph.D, and Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota, sought to provide state-level estimates of the size and structure of the individual market for health insurance and to investigate the impact of the new MLR regulation.