Click here to download the podcast.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.
A transcript is available here.Read the accompanying Special Report,
"Ready to jump in?" published in the May 31, 2010, issue of
Modern Healthcare.
