120.949             Health Insurance Policies for Small Groups

In view of health insurance companies moving to eliminate many or all of the health insurance plans being offered to small groups (2-50 employees), while also dramatically reducing the financial incentives for brokers to market their plans, and continuing to raise premiums on small businesses at rates that are making such insurance unaffordable, that the Medical Society of the State of New York urge the Department of Financial Services to require all health insurance companies operating in the State of New York to offer a wide array of health insurance to small groups, both within the health insurance exchange and outside of the exchange. (HOD 2012-55; referred, modified & adopted by Council 11/29/2012; Amended and Reaffirmed HOD 2022)