Health Insurers Use Process Intended to Curb Rate Increases to Justify Them
<div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="dc:title"><h1><a href="/content/health-insurers-use-process-intended-curb-rate-increases-justify-them">Health Insurers Use Process Intended to Curb Rate Increases to Justify Them</a></h1></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-source field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/news-source/ny-times" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">NY Times</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">ROBERT PEAR</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Publication Date: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-08-14T00:00:00-04:00">Sunday, August 14, 2016</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded">WASHINGTON — After the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2010, it created a review mechanism intended to prevent exorbitant increases in health insurance rates by shaming companies that sought them.
But this summer, insurers are turning that process on its head, using it to highlight the reasons they are losing money under the health care law and their case for raising premiums in 2017.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-link field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">News Link: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/health-insurers-use-process-intended-to-curb-rate-increases-to-justify-them.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/health-insurers-use-process-intend...</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-category field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">News Media Category: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/media-news-category/health-care" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Health Care</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/media-news-category/metro-iaf-news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Metro-IAF news</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-break field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p></p>
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