Healthcare Finance News May 2, 2018
Jeff Lagasse

Former HHS Secretary Tom Price’s statements and new research from the Commonwealth Fund suggest the ACA brought more young people to insurance pool.

When the Affordable Care Act was initially passed, some thought that many people, high-income men in good health particularly, would be driven from the insurance market and that would indicate a failure on the part of the ACA’s individual mandate. Instead the opposite appears to be true.

What’s more, former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, MD, said publicly this week that when President Trump’s tax bill, which ends the individual mandate in 2019, kicks in insurance prices are going to rise.

Price’s statement comes after the uninsured rate dropped substantially at least when it comes...

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