Health Law's Flaws Will Spur Drive for Single-Payer Reform

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13. The authors are aware that rebate

checks are in the mail, correct?

http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=350196

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The week before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, the federal government announced that 12.8 million Americans would receive rebates on their health insurance premiums at an average of $151 per household.

Those checks are now in the mail or in the hands of those who paid the premiums, who, in most cases, are the employees of companies that have health insurance through a commercial plan. In Missouri, some $65 million in rebates due by Aug. 1 will be shared among 588,000 private health insurance customers.

The rebates were triggered by the "medical loss ratio" provision of the 2010 health care reform law that essentially caps insurance companies' administrative costs at 20 percent of premiums.