Policy Innovations within the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces

By Rachel Schwab, Rachel Swindle, Jalisa Clark, and Justin Giovannelli

Over 20 million individuals have chosen a 2024 well being plan on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Marketplaces. This document enrollment—alongside a extra steady authorized and political surroundings, relative to the ACA’s early years—might present alternatives for Marketplaces to pursue modern and consumer-friendly insurance policies that bolster this significant supply of reasonably priced, complete medical health insurance.

In a current challenge transient for the Commonwealth Fund, CHIR consultants reviewed coverage selections by state-run Marketplaces and the federally facilitated Marketplace, together with efforts to scale back enrollment boundaries, simplify plan alternative, promote market competitors, and improve well being fairness. The authors additionally created an interactive map dashboard highlighting much more key Marketplace insurance policies for the 2023 plan 12 months.

You can learn the problem transient right here, and entry the whole set of interactive maps right here.