MPH’s Graves explains how new health care bill effects insurance shoppers
Many Tennesseans shopping for insurance could pay more money under the Senate's health care reform bill, although the underlying factors driving the costs change over the next decade.
The Senate bill would allow plans to cover 58 percent of the actuarial value — or the percentage of the plan that is expected to cover of services — which is similar to what's called catastrophic plans on the existing exchange, which come with lower premiums, said John Graves, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.