Mini-Med health insurance plans

GUEST EDITORIAL By Thomas Cheplick, The Heartland Institute New regulations issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are accelerating the demise of so-called “mini-med” health care insurance plans by eliminating a waiver program the plans needed to survive regulations within President Obama’s health care law. Under mini-med health insurance plans, a person takes out a health insurance policy that covers routine and inexpensive health care needs but not catastrophic care. Obama’s law forces…