Alex Azar: Head of HHS Claims He Doesn't Know How Insurance Markets Work

That would have been an appropriate headline for an NYT article in which Alex Azar, the head of the Department of Health and Human Sevices, claimed that the Trump Administration's policies are not responsible for double-digit price increases for insurance policies in the exchange. If Azar really believes what he claims, he doesn't understand the basics of insurance.

The Trump Administration has adopted policies that allow more healthy people to opt out of the exchanges' insurance pool. It cre...