NAIC To IRS: Don’t Give Tax Advantages To Health Sharing Ministries

State insurance commissioners ask IRS to scrap a proposed rule that would allow payments to health care sharing ministries (HCSM) to be deductible or qualify for a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA), saying that sharing ministries should not be permitted to both claim exemption from state insurance regulations and receive tax advantages through an IRS classification. HCSMs do not provide comprehensive care and thus leave consumers at risk of high costs and pulls healthier enrollees from the risk pool, the National...