Health Payer Intelligence November 25, 2020
Targeted Medicaid expansion, bolstering state contributions to Affordable Care Act marketplace subsidies, or a hybrid of these options may help increase payer coverage affordability.
Healthcare coverage remains out of reach for many low-income Americans due to cost, but three innovative solutions for Connecticut might shed light on how to bolster payer coverage affordability, a recent report commissioned by the Connecticut Health Foundation revealed.
Thirteen percent of Connecticut’s residents fall between 100 percent and 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Around 48,000 of those individuals are uninsured.
“The high level of uninsurance among people between 100% and 200% of poverty is generally not the result of a lack of coverage options, but rather a lack of affordable coverage choices for...