Fierce Healthcare March 2, 2020
Paige Minemyer

The individual insurance market saw five years of significant change under the ACA—and there are lessons for policymakers to take away from both the successes and failures, a new study shows.

Researchers at Georgetown University looked back at how the Affordable Care Act impacted the individual insurance markets between 2014 and 2019 and found that the healthcare law’s vulnerability to ongoing policy change “serves as both a lesson and a warning” for future reformers.

Sabrina Corlette, co-director of Georgetown’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms and the study’s lead author, told FierceHealthcare that lesson is valuable for potential reform on both the right and left sides of the political spectrum.

“There can be very well-intentioned policies that can...

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