Advocates question Lt. Gov. Taylor's use of data from ODI's ACA report

According to a consumer advocacy group that supports the Affordable Care Act, Lt. Governor Mary Taylor has not presented the full details of an Ohio Department of Insurance-commissioned study of the ACA, instead only focusing on a select few data points that cast the reform law in a negative light (Source: “Advocates say Taylor misuses data to attack Obama health-care law,” Columbus Dispatch, March 14, 2012).

Although Taylor, an outspoken critic of the health reform law, often sites a projection in the Milliman Inc. report (pdf, 159 pages) that premiums in the individual marketplace will jump by 85 percent, officials with Universal Helath Care Action Network counter that the Congressional Budget Office study estimates increases that and one-sixth as large, according to analysis from UHCAN (pdf, 11 pages).

In November, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a policy brief, “A closer look at the impact of federal reform on Ohio insurance markets,” (pdf, 8 pages) which summarizes select key findings of the ODI/Milliman report.