CMS Releases Final 2017 Letter To Issuers In The Federally Facilitated Marketplaces (Updated)

Implementing Health Reform (March 3 update). On March 3, 2016, the Office of the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) announced that the ACA has resulted in gains in health insurance coverage of 20 million adults through February 22, 2016. This includes 2.3 million young adults who gained coverage under the ACA provision allowing young adults to remain on their parents’ coverage through age 26, and 17.7 million non-elderly adults who have gained coverage between the beginning of open enrollment in October 2013 and the present. The report shows continued progress since ASPE released its last estimate that the ACA had reduced the number of the uninsured of 17.6 million in September of 2015. The uninsured rate for nonelderly adults has dropped from 20.3 percent in October 2013 to 11.5 percent in early 2016. The uninsured rate for non-elderly adults among Black non-Hispanics has fallen from 22.4 to 10.6 percent; among Hispanics from 41.8 to 30.5 percent; and among White non-Hispanics from 14.3 to 7 percent. About 9.5 million women and 8.3 million men have gained coverage since October of 2013. The ASPE report is based primarily on data from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey, adjusted to remove contributions from general economic conditions (such as employment status), overall time trends, geographic locations of respondents, and shifting demographics of the uninsured. The Gallup-Healthways data is consistent with data from other more reliable ...
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