CMS Proposes Major Policy Changes, Enrollment Numbers Inflated

Stakeholders will be spending Thanksgiving week digesting the cornucopia of polices CMS included in a 324-page proposed regulation unveiled Friday that sets forth 2016 standards for the exchanges and the issuers participating in them. Observers will also continue to absorb the impact of last week's revelation that the enrollment numbers had been inflated by HHS, and the House lawsuit against the president that unexpectedly goes after the ACA's cost-sharing subsidies. The regulations propose several changes aimed at improving consumer protections...