Private Health Insurance Premiums Reach Record High for 2024
New ValuePenguin analysis finds Americans will spend an average of $584 per month on health insurance as CMS reveals ACA Marketplace enrollment has already topped 15 million.
Health Care Reform
7 Million+ Sign Up for Coverage in ACA Marketplace Since Start of Open Enrollment (and 4 million via HealthSherpa)
New CMS and HealthSherpa figures show enrollment increases as deadline for January coverage fast approaches.
Employers Did Not Drop Health Benefits After ACA: EBRI Report
New EBRI research examining law’s impact on employers offering health insurance finds 5% increase in worker eligibility for employment-based health coverage since 2014.
Nearly 16 Million Sign Up for ACA Coverage in Marketplace Since Start of OEP
Totals as open enrollment period nears its end represent a 13% increase from last year.
5.5 Million Sign Up for ACA Coverage Since Start of Open Enrollment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports the total represents an 18% increase over last year at the same time.
HealthSherpa announces approved vendor status for plan year 2023 agent and broker marketplace trainings
Health insurance enrollment platform will be a CMS-approved training vendor for plan year 2023 federally facilitated Marketplace training and certification.
National uninsured rate reaches all-time low in 2022
HHS Secretary Becerra says Biden-Harris Administration efforts to expand health insurance coverage, lower costs through American Rescue Plan and other actions are working.
Record-high 13.6 million sign up for health coverage on ACA marketplaces
CMS says this year’s open enrollment period is outpacing all previous years, with more than two weeks remaining.
11 State insurance commissioners provide 12 ACA policy recommendations to President-Elect Biden
Group details six immediate or critical Affordable Care Act policy recommendations and six longer-term recommendations for the Biden administration to consider.
CMS: 8.2 million signed up for ACA health coverage for 2021
Soaring unemployment and other effects of pandemic help drive enrollment, with nearly one-fourth signing up for the first time.
