Many LifeHealthPro.com readers loathe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as a whole and the PPACA public health insurance exchange system in particular.
Some at least respect the goals of PPACA and have feelings ranging from a sincere interest in overhauling and improving exchange operations up to a sense that the exchanges they personally work with are creaking along reasonably well, under the circumstances.
Some have no strong opinions about either PPACA or the exchanges and just wish the exchanges or exchange plan issuers they work with would send them the minuscule commission payments that they were supposed to be paid for the policies they sold last year.
Let’s assume, for the sake of discussion, that at least part of PPACA will survive in 2016.
On the one hand, one challenge with discussing PPACA is that many people think of the PPACA exchange system as being PPACA. Of course, PPACA is a huge law that affects many activities of little interest to people in the commercial health insurance community. Few readers here have strong opinions one way or the other about assistance for medical professional education support programs, for example.
Even in the commercial health insurance market, PPACA has many provisions that have no obvious connection with the exchange program, such as the provisions that require issuers to sell coverage without taking personal health status information into account, and without using personal health status information other than age and tobacco use when pricing coverage.