Health Affairs May 30, 2018
Shao-Chee Sim

In April 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final report summarizing Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment data during the fifth open enrollment period (OEP) (2018) for all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Along with the national data, CMS also released state-level data on plan selections and demographic characteristics of consumers. This blog post is an attempt to understand and compare the Texas ACA enrollees with national ACA enrollees.

The numbers continue to show that most Texans and Americans who previously enrolled in ACA marketplaces want to keep their coverage. More than 80 percent of Texas and national ACA enrollees continue to find affordable health coverage in the marketplaces—because of federal tax credits—despite increases...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Govt Agencies, Insurance, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Public Exchange, States
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