Private Insurance
How ACA Marketplace Premiums Are Changing by County in 2021
Premiums for ACA Marketplace benchmark silver plans are decreasing on average across the U.S. in 2021. However, premium changes vary widely by location and by metal level, including premium increases in a number of counties and plans.
- Health Costs
Health Insurer Financial Performance Through September 2020
In this brief, we analyze third quarter data from 2018 to 2020 to examine how insurance markets performed financially through the end of September. Average margins remained relatively high compared to the same point in recent years, suggesting many insurers remained profitable even as non-COVID-related care returned in the summer and fall.
- Health Costs
2020 Employer Health Benefits Survey
Affordability in the ACA Marketplace Under a Proposal Like Joe Biden’s Health Plan
Return of Health Discrimination to Insurance Markets Could Affect Millions of People
Is COVID-19 a Pre-Existing Condition? What Could Happen if the ACA is Overturned
If the ACA is overturned, federal law protection for people with pre-existing health conditions would end. This post examines what that could mean for people in the time of COVID-19, including whether and how insurers could deny coverage to people who have had COVID or other pre-existing conditions.
- Courts
Potential Impact of California v. Texas Decision on Key Provisions of the Affordable Care Act
On Nov. 10, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act. This fact sheet summarizes the major provisions of the ACA, illustrating the breadth of its changes to the health care system.
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Pre-Existing Condition Prevalence for Individuals and Families
This analysis estimates that almost 54 million people have pre-existing health conditions that would likely have made them uninsurable in the individual markets that existed in most states before the ACA..
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Tracking Section 1332 State Innovation Waivers
Through Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), states may apply for waivers to alter key ACA requirements in the individual and small group insurance markets.
Individual market
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Even With Senate Control, Democrats Will Need Buy-In From GOP on Key Health Priorities
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Trump Administration Approves First Medicaid Block Grant, in Tennessee
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