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Health Insurance Coverage

Access to affordable, high quality health insurance coverage improves access to care, boosts health care outcomes, and provides critical financial security. Yet such coverage is too often difficult to access or inadequate to fully meet people’s needs. Our team of nationally recognized experts investigates the impact of federal and state policies on whether and how health insurance does – or too often does not – work for people.

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Our experts at CHIR conduct research to assess the impact of federal and state policies to improve health care access and affordability and ensure that health insurance works for the people who need it most. We provide unbiased, relevant, and timely information, analysis, and technical assistance to policymakers, regulators, and stakeholders seeking a marketplace where consumers have access to affordable and high quality healthcare coverage.

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No Good Options: In the Wake of Marketplace Affordability Woes, Consumers Face Onslaught of Misleading Marketing of Limited Benefits Product

Georgetown’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR), with funding from Blood Cancer United, released findings from a secret shopper study finding aggressive and misleading marketing of limited benefit health insurance products.

Affordable Care Act and Marketplaces, Costs and Competition, Health Insurance Coverage, Provider Costs and Billing Reform, Transparency