Insurance Exchanges

Three pager on Connecticut's Exchange CEO duties, requirements and expectations.

Centers for Health Care Strategies has published a report authored by Manatt Health Solutions that analyzes Medicaid managed care contracts in six states in light of their relevance to exchange Qualified Health Plan (QHP) certification.

This report from the Young Invincibles and DEMOS found that the rate of full-time workers between 18 and 24 years old with employer-sponsored insurance dropped 12.8 percent over the past decade, while dropping 8.5 percent for workers ages 25 to 34.

This GAO report recommends that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services needs to determine the feasibility of doing more to make the costs of health care services available to consumers and determine the next steps it needs to take in this area.

This Urban Institute report asserts that the assumption that employers will choose to pay the penalty for not providing health benefits under the ACA, ignores the fact that employers have offered health benefits to employees for years without being threatened with a penalty if they failed to do so.