Assessing The Sales Impact Of The New Health Insurance Exchange Market
Executive Summary
Many stakeholders have an interest in how the new health insurance exchanges mandated by the Affordable Care Act will impact product sales. While a multitude of known and unknown factors impact health insurance coverage decisions, and subsequently which services and products and services get used, surprisingly robust actuarial models used in the insurance industry are very applicable to forecasting product sales.
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