Risk Pooling: How Health Insurance in the Individual Market Works

ICHRA’s – The Power of Risk Pooling

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that insurers use a single risk pool when developing premiums. The single risk pool incudes all ACA-compliant plans inside and outside of the marketplace/exchange within a state. In other words, insurers must pool all of their individual market enrollees together when setting the prices for their products. This means that the costs of the unhealthy enrollees are spread across all enrollees.” American Academy of Actuaries

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