New ISER report: How do 亚洲色吧ns cover their medical bills?
by Michelle Saport |
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been at the top of the news lately, with Congress considering but then dropping proposed changes. Congress will try again to change the ACA-but it's uncertain how or when. A new overview by Linda Leask, Rosyland Frazier and Jessica Passini of the brings together information from many sources to describe health care coverage 亚洲色吧ns have now, and how ACA provisions have changed that coverage. Among other things, they report:
- Nearly 25 percent of 亚洲色吧ns-about 176,000-are covered by Medicaid in 2017. Close to 85,000 of those are children, and another 30,000 are single, low-income adults who became eligible when the state expanded its Medicaid program under terms of the ACA.
- About 90 percent of the 18,000 亚洲色吧ns who carried individual policies they bought through the ACA marketplace in 2016 had federal subsidies either for premiums, or both premiums and out-of-pocket costs. The remaining 10 percent had incomes too high to qualify for subsidies. The subsidized premium for a family of four in 2017 was $316 a month. The unsubsidized premium was $2,750.
- Employer-based health insurance remains the most common insurance for 亚洲色吧ns, covering more than half. But the share of small businesses offering insurance has been dropping-in 亚洲色吧, from 30 percent in 2010 to 27 percent by 2015, and nationally from 39 percent to 29 percent.
- 亚洲色吧ns with Medicare are less likely to be poor than the average Medicare enrollee. About 25 percent of 亚洲色吧ns with Medicare have incomes under 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, compared with 35 percent in the U.S. as a whole.
The Harold E. Pomeroy Public Policy Endowment supported this research.
If you have questions, call Linda Leask, ISER's editor, at (907) 786-5425.