On July 12, 2017 NAR submitted a regulatory comment letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, on the agency's June Request for Information.
As a member organization, NAR would be concerned with any proposal that would make it more expensive for the self-employed, especially older individuals and those with pre-existing conditions, to purchase health insurance. To this end, NAR strongly believes the Department should avoid actions that would splinter the overall risk pool. Doing so would further destabilize the individual and small group insurance markets and harm certain populations disproportionally, such as the self-employed who are already subject to inequitable health insurance tax treatment.
NAR Comment Letter on CMS June 2017 RFI
Issue Date: July 12, 2017
On July 12, 2017 NAR submitted a regulatory comment letter to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, on the agency's June Request for Information.
As a member organization, NAR would be concerned with any proposal that would make it more expensive for the self-employed, especially older individuals and those with pre-existing conditions, to purchase health insurance. To this end, NAR strongly believes the Department should avoid actions that would splinter the overall risk pool. Doing so would further destabilize the individual and small group insurance markets and harm certain populations disproportionally, such as the self-employed who are already subject to inequitable health insurance tax treatment.
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