The Center on Health Insurance Reforms held its first-ever Tweetchat in light of the release of our updated Navigator Resource Guide. We asked navigators, assisters, and consumers to ask us questions they had about Open Enrollment or health insurance generally. Here are five questions participants had about health insurance.
Summer is over, but health policy researchers have hardly taken a vacation. In August’s research round up, CHIR’s Olivia Hoppe looks into studies examining specialty drug coverage across commercial plans, the effects of the Affordable Care Act on people of different income levels, individual market premium predictions, employer-sponsored high-deductible health plans, and surprise medical bills in employer-sponsored insurance.
On July 11, the full House Ways and Means Committee approved multiple health-related tax bills, many of which would expand tax breaks for Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). As Georgetown Center for Children and Families’ Edwin Park explains, these HSA bills would primarily benefit those with high incomes, rather than make health coverage more affordable for low- and moderate-income children and families.
In CHIRblog’s April installment of What We’re Reading, CHIR’s Olivia Hoppe digs into reports that highlight 2018 Affordable Care Act enrollment outcomes and policies that will affect 2019, the risks of short-term health plans, the impact of the ACA’s marketplaces on individuals with chronic health conditions, and the rising prevalence of health savings accounts and high-deductible health plans.
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