HealthLeaders Media April 15, 2021
ACA marketplace enrollment would increase 60% in 2022 by extending ARPA’s temporary subsidies.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Subsidized enrollment would increase by 5.1 million, and 317,000 people with non-ACA-compliant coverage would switch to a more comprehensive ACA-compliant plan.
– Under the ARPA, people with incomes over 400% of poverty are eligible for subsidies to buy health insurance on the ACA marketplace.
– The law also increases financial assistance for lower-income people who were eligible for ACA coverage.
– Both provisions took effect retroactively on Jan. 1, 2021 and will expire in two years.
The numbers of uninsured people in the United States would fall by 4.2 million if the temporary health insurance subsidies in the American Rescue Plan Act were made...
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