Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell looked back at the progress of the first five years of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and looked ahead to the third year of open enrollment which begins just over a month from now. The review of the ACA’s progress looked at new data available from the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) which […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has concluded its 2015 survey of employer-based health plans and issued its report. Some of the key findings show that premiums increased slightly at an average of 4% and that the number of companies that offer health benefits is unchanged. To download the summary of findings, click here. To read the […] Read More »

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) has done a new breakdown showing the uninsured rates by state from 2013 and 2014 and the difference in the rates for those two years. Of course the significance of 2013 and 2014 is the opening of the ACA Marketplaces and the coverage they offered as of […] Read More »

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the enrollment data for year 2 of the marketplace as of June 30, 2015. As of that date, 9.9 million people had effective coverage through the marketplaces (both federally facilitated and state-based). CMS also reported that approximately 84% of these consumers were receiving premium assistance […] Read More »