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Mary Lou Retton’s Explanation of Health Insurance Takes Some Somersaults

Kaiser Health News

Under the law, which has offered coverage through state and federal marketplaces since 2014, insurers are barred from rejecting people with preexisting conditions and cannot charge higher premiums for them, either. The ACA does offer subsidies to offset deductible costs for people on the lower end of the income scale.

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One in Two Americans with Work-Based Insurance Worries That Healthcare Costs Could Lead to Bankruptcy

Health Populi

“The ACA expanded coverage to millions of poor and near-poor families between 2014 and 2016, and the obtaining of health insurance may have staved off financial ruin, perhaps. Nonetheless, the ACA has not been a panacea ridding Americans of the threat of medical bankruptcy and financial toxicity of health care costs borne by U.S.

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Fifth Circuit Upholds ACA Risk Adjustment Program

Healthcare Law Blog

Various smaller health insurance issuers have challenged the risk-adjustment program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), alleging, among other things, that its underlying methodology favors larger insurers. United States Dep’t of Health & Hum. 20-50963, 2022 WL 807554, at *1 (5th Cir. The Risk-Adjustment Program.

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Medical Debt in the U.S. Greater in States That Did Not Expand Medicaid

Health Populi

The first line chart illustrates the trends in medical debt in collections by state expansion of Medicaid, with the bottom darkest line representing debt in collections in Medicaid expansion states from the jump in 2014. Now, cast your eye up to the orange line, tying to debt in states that expanded Medicaid after 2014.

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The Health Insurance Premium for a Family Averages $25,572 in 2024 – KFF’s Annual Update on Employer-Sponsored Benefits

Health Populi

In this last time period, COVID and its long-tail into 2024, workers’ earnings rose much more than in the previous three time intervals, and inflation increased dramatically at 23% roughly matching premium increases in the period.

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Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. Given the frailty of the ACA health insurance marketplaces (which was not addressed in the recent Congressional budget deal , much to Sen.

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Starting This Year, Health Care Providers Will Be Short Changed in Medicaid Reimbursements

The Health Law Firm

The rate increase was part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as an incentive for providers to participate in Medicaid. However, that rate increase expired December 31, 2014. However, for the past two years, Medicaid programs have been required to reimburse primary care providers at Medicare levels, which is typically higher.