Specifically, 2.2 percent of individual health plan policyholders filed 50 percent of claims last year, state Commerce Department officials said Nov. 14. As a result, premiums rose for healthy customers as well.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce is advising any solution to curb rising premium costs address the unbalanced risk pool, according to the report.
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