Modern Healthcare reporter Rebecca Vesely talks with Mark Merlis, an independent health policy analyst, about the funding challenges facing the temporary high-risk pool for the uninsured set to take effect this summer and continue through 2014. The federal risk pool is a result of the healthcare reform law. A recent report written by Merlis for the National Institute for Health Care Reform indicates that the $5 billion allocated for the program is likely to fall far short of what will be needed.
Read the accompanying Special Report, "Ready to jump in?" published in the May 31, 2010, issue of Modern Healthcare.
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