Everything changes: Demographics inside and outside the ACA marketplace
Every year at this time I bind sheaves of four blog posts for two submissions to the National Institute of Health Care Management's Digital Health Care Media Awards. Here I'd like to post an outtake: a series of posts probing some under-the-radar facts about the the ACA marketplace and its prospective enrollees. That is:
The ACA marketplace and Medicaid expansion have never been tested by recession but stand ready as an economic shock absorber.
U.S. income gains since 2014 have affected marketplace participation.
Yearly apparent declines in on-exchange enrollment since 2016 are largely illusory.
Nonetheless, persistent low takeup bespeaks inadequate subsidies.
A recent increase in the uninsured population is concentrated at higher incomes.
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