Your Aug. 15 editorial “A Short-Term ObamaCare Fix” correctly notes that additional steps must be taken to help Americans facing higher health-insurance premiums and too few choices. But the solution you offer—expanding the use of short-term, limited policies for up to a full year—would have an opposite, harmful effect. Short-term policies sold for up to a year would allow healthy individuals, whose health status would be strictly screened, to purchase these plans and then, if they develop an illness, switch to a more...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2017 18:46 UTC