More unknowns than knowns as Michigan enters brave new world of auto insurance reform
Charles Gaba knows his way around an insurance market.
A metro Detroit web developer who made a national name for himself in the early days of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) rollout by painstakingly tracking its enrollment numbers, Gaba has tracked health care market developments across the country since then on his website ACASignups.net.
So as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill today that kicks off Michigan’s bold experiment in drastically expanding the amount of choice available to consumers on the auto insurance market, the Advance talked to Gaba about his thoughts on the ramifications that might have for not only auto insurance, but for health care in Michigan writ large.
Gaba stressed that there are still plenty of questions to be answered about the consequences of the choices Michiganders might make now that the state’s long-standing requirement for unlimited personal injury protection (PIP) has been removed. But he pointed out that there are a few parallels between the adjustments being made and those that followed in the wake of the ACA.
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