Mississippi insurance regulators seem to want it both ways. They're asking the Obama administration for permission to run a small-group health insurance exchange. Just not the individual one.
But Sarah Lueck and other health policy specialists at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan think tank often described as liberal, say a state shoudln't be allowed to split the exchange work with the feds.
Mike Chaney, the Mississippi insurance commissioner, and the CBPP health policy specialists talk about the idea of splitting the Small Business Health Options Program exchange and individual exchange jobs in comments sent to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
