ACA Title 1, Sec. 1252. Rating reforms must apply uniformly to all health insurance issuers and group health plans: “Good” leveling the playing field. This provision establishes a “level playing field” for all plans in a given marketplace. This is likely to prevent “cherry picking” through manipulation of premium rates. Combined with the other standardization of plan design requirements and standardized communications requirements it should help enable healthy price competition to take place.

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