Fierce Health Payers October 13, 2021
Nearly 1 million uninsured children and parents could get insurance coverage if temporary, enhanced income-based subsidies on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges would be made permanent, new data show.
The analysis, released Tuesday by the Urban Institute, comes as Democrats in Congress are attempting to extend enhanced subsidies that expire after the 2022 coverage year. The subsidies passed as part of the American Rescue Plan Act help to dramatically lower the cost of insurance for people with low incomes.
“If the [American Rescue Plan Act’s] enhanced subsidies were made permanent, we find that the number of uninsured children would fall by approximately 303,000, and the number of uninsured parents would fall by about 686,000,” the analysis said. “The number of...
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