Insurance Business interviewed Manatt’s Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article about his role in the Affordable Care Act and how the program is working now.
In response to a question about what advice he would give insurance companies on the exchanges, Ario said:
“I am a fan of the provider-sponsored regional plans that integrate insurance and delivery systems for many reasons; an important one is that they tend to serve the whole community – from the Medicaid safety net to the commercial market to Medicare. In spite of what is happening this year, I see the national brands retooling to do the same, and I hope they continue down that path so that we end up with a truly unique American model where the government sets the rules of competition – calibrated to the differing needs of Medicaid, Medicare and commercial populations – and then lets insurers compete and innovate in ways that are not feasible for the government by itself.”
Read the article here.