President Biden’s proposal to open Obamacare plans and Medicaid to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients marks the most recent effort to expand federally subsidized health insurance programs. These expansions, however, come with an inconvenient truth: They inflate prices for unsubsidized commercial patients and payers.
Our new study documents that between 2011 and 2021, after adjusting for medical price inflation, median unsubsidized premiums for in...
It’s time to address the unaffordability of affordable health care
President Biden’s proposal to open Obamacare plans and Medicaid to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients marks the most recent effort to expand federally subsidized health insurance programs. These expansions, however, come with an inconvenient truth: They inflate prices for unsubsidized commercial patients and payers.
Our new study documents that between 2011 and 2021, after adjusting for medical price inflation, median unsubsidized premiums for in...