Health Payer Intelligence February 6, 2020
Kelsey Waddill

Starting in 2017, healthcare trends that started with the ACA including access to care, uninsurance rates, and care avoidance began to reverse in nonexpansion states.

From 2016 to 2017, the uninsured rate rose by 1.2 percent and the number of persons who avoided care due to cost rose by 1.0 percent, demonstrating a shift in healthcare trends that started with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, Health Affairs researchers found.

The ideological and political distinctions between the Obama administration and the Trump administration are, arguably, best reflected in their approach to healthcare. After Obama instituted the ACA in March 2010, he ushered it through its infancy. But starting in the Trump era, the bill began to come apart piece...

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