Changes to Medigap plans meet resistance

Reporting for Kaiser Health News, Susan Jaffe writes: "A provision of the 2010 federal health law seeking to increase Medicare beneficiaries' share of health care costs is meeting resistance from an unlikely group of 33 state insurance regulators, health insurers and consumer advocates charged with revising Medigap insurance policies that cover most out-of-pocket expenses. ... In a conference call later this morning, the group will discuss their congressional assignment as well as the broader proposals limiting Medigap policies, which help more than 7 million Medicare beneficiaries –about one fifth of those in traditional Medicare – pay for their out-of-pocket costs" (Jaffe, 8/30). Read the story.  

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