Iowa to allow non-ACA compliant plans for another year
Following federal approval, the state agency announced Thursday that individuals and small groups with transitional or "grandmothered" health insurance policies, which do not meet certain Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules, can continue WITH those plans through the end of next year.
Transitional plans are plans purchased after the Affordable Care Act was passed but before it was implemented in 2014.
An estimated 37,000 Iowans have the transitional insurance plans, according to the Iowa Insurance Division.
Iowa Insurance Commissioner
"If these Iowans were forced to join the collapsed individual ACA-compliant market, they would see rate increases between 100 and 400 percent," he said.
Those individuals, he said, have chosem not to enroll in the ACA marketplace.
"They like their plans, and they have kept them," Ommen said in the statement. "Without transitional plans as an option for these Iowans, most would likely join the up to 26,000 Iowans that have fled our ACA-compliant individual market this year."
Nationwide, allowing the existence of these plans is cited as a major factor in the high premium rates and the destabilization of the individual marketplace, according to
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