Administration Has Options, Insurers Explore Post-King Contingencies Despite Official Message

Health insurers are working on their own contingency plans in preparation for a potentially disastrous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell, while the Obama administration has more regulatory options that would help mitigate effects of an insurance “death spiral” than HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and other officials are publicly willing to admit, industry leaders said Thursday (March 12). The industry remarks about behind-the-scenes work by insurance companies and HHS stand in contrast to the administration's public statements that...