States push short-term insurance as healthcare costs climb

By: Anna Claire Vollers

Outlets: Stateline

Published: November 9, 2026

Words: 1,548

Last Updated: 13 hours, 33 minutes ago

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Earlier this year, Madison Harden-Stein and her colleagues at the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms posed as consumers interested in buying insurance as part of a secret shopper study.

They found that insurance brokers and sales representatives often pushed short-term health insurance plans with limited coverage, and used misleading and inaccurate information to make them more appealing. The deceptive sales tactics made it difficult to make an informed decision about what they’d …

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