Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2015
ISSN
1075-2994
Publisher
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
As the ACA shifts the function of health insurance from voluntary contract to a means of financing health care, it poses some challenges to traditional doctrines for interpreting health plan provisions. This article explores whether and how the doctrine of reasonable expectations and rules of statutory interpretation might apply to Essential Health Benefits coverage. A functional approach linking the two into a doctrine of reasonable statutory expectations could move us toward developing more consistent rules of interpretation within a more realistic conception of contemporary health insurance.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner,
The Picture Begins to Assert Itself: Rules of Construction for Essential Health Benefits in Health Insurance Plans Subject to the Affordable Care Act
,
in
24
Annals of Health Law
437
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/351
