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Health and Economy Baseline Estimates
The following report details the most recent updates to the Center for Health and Economy’s (H&E) baseline estimates of insurance coverage, plan choice, and the premium landscape of…
Fully Implementing the Affordable Care Act
While enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has never been fully implemented. The Health Insurance Marketplaces and partial Medicaid expansion were implemented in 2014, but under the Obama…
Health and Economy Baseline Estimates
The following report details the most recent updates to the H&E baseline estimates of insurance coverage, federal budgetary impact, plan choice, and the premium landscape of health insurance for Americans…
The Health Care Choices Proposal
In June, the Health Policy Consensus Group released a health care reform plan called “The Health Care Choices Proposal.”[1] The stated purpose of this plan, referred to in…
The Proposed Modifications to Short Term Limited Duration Insurance Plans
The Trump Administration has released a series of executive orders with the aim of reducing health insurance premiums. One of these orders seeks to redefine Short Term Limited Duration Insurance…
Reinsurance and Cost-Sharing Reductions Estimates
In response to the 2018 premium increases in the Affordable Care Act’s individual market, members of Congress have written various pieces of legislation with the goal of lowering premiums. Appropriating…
Health and Economy Baseline Estimates
Entering the 2018 plan year, the health insurance market continues to see increasing and unpredictable costs, large numbers of uninsured individuals, and inadequate access to care. The Center for Health…
Health and Economy Baseline Estimates
Entering the fourth year of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the insurance market continues to see increasing and unpredictable costs, large numbers of uninsured individuals, and inadequate…
The Cost of Stabilizing Individual Market Enrollment without the Individual Mandate and Cost Sharing Reductions
What are the budget implications of a repeal of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act? How much federal money would it take to stabilize enrollment in the marketplaces? In…
Early Estimates of Premium Impacts on 2017 Spending
On November 1, coinciding with the beginning of open enrollment for the Individual Marketplace’s 2017 plan year, 2017 premiums were released. In this paper, The Center for Health and Economy…