Author: Nina Owcharenko
Source: The Heritage Foundation, 02/14/05
Association health plans (AHPs) would improve coverage options for Americans, but "Congress can make AHPs even more successful by advancing consumer-oriented mechanisms, such as competition, consumer choice, and a nimble regulatory structure," writes Nina Owcharenko of The Heritage Foundation. The limitations of employer-sponsored coverage still exist under traditional AHPs, resulting in "lack of individual ownership, personal choice, and true portability." The proposed expanded AHP model, which would allow non-employer groups like religious, charitable, and civic organizations to form AHPs based on individual membership, offers more advantages by helping to "promote continuity in care and coverage as well as [empowering] consumers to choose and own their own health care policies." Owcharenko also suggests that Congress "tackle the tax treatment of health insurance… [to] ensure that individuals are able to choose, without bias from the tax code, the best source of health care and coverage for themselves and their families."
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