Insurance Exchanges

The purpose of this brief is to set forth the major requirements for state health insurance exchanges as described in the Affordable Care Act.

The Commonwealth Fund's States in Action focuses on the role of the exchanges in selecting helath plans for inside the exhange while avoiding adverse selection.

The KFF report outlines how advanced payment for health insurance subsidies will work under the ACA and examines issues related to potential tax liability for individuals whose income might change during the year.

This paper examines the definition and prevalence of self-insured health plans, the application of PPACA provisions to these plans, and
the possible effects on the broader health insurance market, should many more employers decide to self-insure.

Alain Enthoven writes in an article for Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy about the state health insurance exchanges.

This report estimates how the Affordable Care Act would affect employer-sponsored insurance and employer health care costs.

This package of tables considers interactions between four different provisions of government support for health care that exist under the new health reform law: Medicare, Medicaid, Insurance Subsidies offered through the Exchange, and Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI).

A new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on states, in particular the increases in insurance coverage, subsidies in the exchanges, Medicaid enrollment and federal spending.

More than nine of 10 leaders in health and health care policy believe the Affordable Care Act sets the right course for health reform, according to a new survey by the Commonwealth Fund.

In response to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, on July 29, 2010, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn issued Executive Order 2010-12 establishing the Healthcare Reform Implementation Council.