Ian Adams and R.J. Lehmann Cited in Capitol Weekly on California Insurance Regulation
Capitol Weekly cited research by ICLE Executive Director Ian Adams and Editor-in-Chief R.J. Lehmann in an op-ed on California legislation that would restrict life insurers’ access to genetic information during underwriting. The piece drew on ICLE’s findings about California’s weakening long-term-care insurance market and increased reliance on Medi-Cal as access to private coverage declines. Read the full piece here.
New research from the International Center for Law & Economics bears this out and shows exactly how creating a bottleneck to coverage can increase costs for the state. When California’s flagship Partnership for Long-Term Care program stopped functioning as intended, Medi-Cal enrollees using long-term services and supports rose 20% from 2017 to 2022.