Thursday, May 26, 2016
United Hospital Fund Report Analyzes New York's Resuscitated Individual Health Insurance Market
A new United Hospital Fund report provides an analysis of enrollment and financial data on New York’s individual health insurance market—before and after the rollout of the Affordable Care Act—showing how New York’s implementation breathed new life into the individual market.
The report also highlights some key steps necessary to sustain that improvement and factors that could undercut these gains.
The report notes that, prior to the Affordable Care Act, a dwindling number of enrollees in the individual health insurance market were able to afford monthly premiums, which typically exceeded $1,000..