Healthcare DIVE January 25, 2019
Les Masterson

Dive Brief:

  • The Affordable Care Act exchanges have gained solid footing despite threats and efforts to undermine the law from Washington over the past two years, according to a new Urban Institute report funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

  • The paper by the left-leaning think tank showed examples of the stability, including more payers in the exchanges this year and modest premium increases. That followed a year when a handful of companies dropped out and the remaining payers increased premiums significantly.

  • Now, the individual mandate penalty is gone and short-term plans are an option for nearly all Americans, but payers have figured out how to make the exchanges profitable nonetheless.

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, HHS, Insurance, Market Research, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Public Exchange, Trends
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