Burda on Healthcare: Hard Lessons in Health Insurance Market Dynamics
4sight Health January 7, 2025
As open enrollment season ends and the health insurance year begins, let’s look at what three new reports and surveys say about where we are and where we’re going.
The first report, released Nov. 21, 2024, is based on the results from The Commonwealth Fund’s biennial health insurance survey of U.S. consumers. Nearly 6,500 U.S. adults aged 19 through 64 took the survey between March and June of this year.
Here’s what the survey found:
- 56% said they were fully insured over the past 12 months either through their employer, a government health insurance program or an ACA plan.
- 23% said they were underinsured over the past year. That meant they had health insurance over the past 12 months,...