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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Elisabeth Rosenthal on narrow networks in ACA marketplace: A few "yes buts"

On the front page of today's New York Times Sunday Review, Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of the incomparable Paying Till it Hurts series on the dysfunctions of our price-gouging healthcare system, spotlights the limitations of ACA marketplace plans, starting with narrow networks. It's accurate and fair, acknowledging the good that the law has done. Nonetheless I have some caveats:

1. Rosenthal compares marketplace plans' narrow networks unfavorably with the more robust networks typically offered by employer-sponsored insurance: