Tag: health insurance marketplace
Helping Consumers Understand their Coverage Options, from Coast to Coast

A massive consumer outreach and education effort is underway to help consumers understand their new coverage options under the Affordable Care Act. But obstacles remain, particularly in states with federally facilitated marketplaces. In the second of a two-part series of blogs for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR faculty members Sarah Dash, Kevin Lucia, and Justin Giovannelli examined the range of outreach efforts across the states.
Under Pressure: An Update on Restrictive State Insurance Marketplace Consumer Assistance Laws

Seventeen states have enacted rules for health insurance marketplace navigators that could hinder their ability to provide consumer assistance. In a blog series published by the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR experts Justin Giovannelli, Kevin Lucia and Sarah Dash take a closer look at these laws and their impact on outreach and enrollment.
What CHIP Implementation Can Teach Us

The early problems with the ACA’s health insurance marketplaces are frustrating. But if history is any guide, they will be temporary – and we can learn from them. Gene Lewit, a CHIP expert who lived through that law’s roll out in the 1990s, blogs about his new report, which finds that enrollment in new major health insurance expansions will be slow at first and expose problems that even the most careful planning might not have anticipated.
Policy Cancellations – Another Tempest in a Teapot?
It Wasn’t Me – HHS IT Contractors Shift Blame at Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing
Back to Basics: A Reminder of What the ACA is all About
Kaiser Report Finds More Than 5 Million Will Fall Into Coverage Gap Created by States Failing to Expand Medicaid

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the technical problems with the new websites for the health insurance marketplaces. While these problems are real, they are likely to be resolved soon. And, as documented in a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, they pale in comparison to the barriers posed by states’ failure to expand their Medicaid programs. Cathy Hope got the report bright and early this morning and has this report.
Health Affairs Podcast Discusses Early Enrollment Experience in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
Don’t Be Fooled – ACA Coverage is a Better Deal for Just About Everyone

Some are questioning the adequacy of health insurance on the new marketplaces. But such concerns neglect to mention that these new plans will be a far better deal compared to what, up to now, has been available. Sabrina Corlette takes a look at the comprehensiveness of health insurance coverage, pre- and post-ACA.