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  • Analysis of 2016 Premium Changes in the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplaces

    Fact Sheet

    The chart and tables below present an updated analysis of changes in premiums for the lowest- and second-lowest cost silver Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans in major cities in 48 states and the District of Columbia, where we were able to find complete data on rates for all insurers. This page will be updated as complete rate information becomes available for more states. More background can be found in our earlier analysis of 2016…

  • Who Will be the H&R Block and TurboTax for Health Insurance?

    Perspective

    There's been quite a bit of focus lately insofar as these issues go, anyway on health insurance agents and brokers (sometimes known in the industry as "producers"). They are pushing legislation that has been introduced in Congress and is now being studied by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that would exempt agent and broker commissions for health insurance from minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) thresholds established in the health reform law. (The MLR is…

  • Health Insurance Premiums in the Individual Market in 2010

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    Health Insurance Premiums in the Individual Market in 2010 Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of 2010 insurer filings to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners using the Mark Farrah Associates Health Coverage Portal. The Average premium is calculated as total premium revenues in a state divided by the number of total member months. The per member per month premium is an average across adults and children, so will be lower than a premium typically…

  • Health Insurance Market Reforms: Portability

    Fact Sheet

    Most Americans have access to health insurance through an employer-sponsored health plan, a fact that has made changing or losing a job a complex issue for the purposes of maintaining health insurance. Moving to a new job can be hard if the employer does not offer health insurance, or if the new employer’s health plan is not as generous as the previous employer’s plan. And with limited protections for people with pre-existing conditions, many people…

  • Navigator and In-Person Assistance Programs: A Snapshot of State Programs

    Issue Brief

    With the open enrollment period for health insurance exchanges less than six months away, consumers are already asking questions about their new health care options under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Even in the age of digital information, hands-on consumer assistance could play a key role in helping people understand their insurance choices come 2014 — a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed that two thirds of the uninsured and a majority of Americans overall…

  • New Interactive Map with Local Data: Estimated 2016 ACA Marketplace Enrollment by Congressional District

    News Release

    As the 115th U.S. Congress deliberates the future of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, a new interactive map from the Kaiser Family Foundation provides estimates of the number of people in each congressional district who enrolled in a 2016 ACA marketplace health plan and the political party of each district’s representative as of January. The analysis also includes maps charting by state the total number of people enrolled under the ACA Medicaid…

  • Web Briefing for Journalists: Repealing and Replacing Obamacare

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    On Wednesday, January 25, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a web briefing for journalists to answer questions and sort through possible scenarios for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, including implications for coverage, the insurance market, the Medicaid program, and women’s health.