(WALL STREET JOURNAL) - Young Avoid New Health Plans Insurers say the early buyers of health coverage on the nations troubled new websites are older than expected so far, raising early concerns about the economics of the insurance marketplaces. If the trend continues, an older, more expensive set of customers could drive up prices for everyone, the insurers say, by forcing them to spread their costs around. We need a broad range of people to make this work, and were not seeing that right now, said Heather Thiltgen of Medical Mutual of Ohio, the states largest insurer by individual customers. Were seeing the population skewing older.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:46:10 +0000
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