Administration Takes Action To Limit Junk Health Insurance
The Biden administration has proposed a new rule limiting insurance products that are largely exempt...
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2020 – It’s a Wrap. CHIR Takes Stock of a Tumultuous, but Busy Year
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
Limitations of Short-Term Health Plans Persist Despite Predictions That They’d Evolve
Individual Market Insurance Brokers Report Improved Consumer Options, But Also Risks from Short-term and Other Alternative Products
States Don’t Know What’s Happening in their Short-term Health Plan Markets and That’s a Problem
States Work to Make Individual Market Health Coverage More Affordable, But Long-Term Solutions Call for Federal Leadership
October Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
Seeing Fraud and Misleading Marketing, States Warn Consumers About Alternative Health Insurance Products
New Addition to Advocate Toolkit Highlights Options for Protecting Consumers Amidst Expansion of Short-Term Plans
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2020 – It’s a Wrap. CHIR Takes Stock of a Tumultuous, but Busy Year
We at Georgetown CHIR look back at this tumultuous, tragic, and eventful year and are thankful we ha...
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
This September, CHIR’s Nia Gooding reviewed new studies on state health system performance, differ...
Limitations of Short-Term Health Plans Persist Despite Predictions That They’d Evolve
The Congressional Budget Office and others predicted that short-term health plans would become more ...
Individual Market Insurance Brokers Report Improved Consumer Options, But Also Risks from Short-term and Other Alternative Products
In a new report, CHIR researchers teamed up with the Urban Institute to assess trends in the individ...
States Don’t Know What’s Happening in their Short-term Health Plan Markets and That’s a Problem
In the midst of a global pandemic, consumers continue to be sold skimpy short-term plans that may no...
States Work to Make Individual Market Health Coverage More Affordable, But Long-Term Solutions Call for Federal Leadership
The individual health insurance markets of most states are stable but face ongoing challenges. In a ...
October Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
For the October Research Round Up, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe dives into studies on the potential effects o...
Seeing Fraud and Misleading Marketing, States Warn Consumers About Alternative Health Insurance Products
States are warning consumers of fraud and about the inadequate nature of some insurance products bei...
New Addition to Advocate Toolkit Highlights Options for Protecting Consumers Amidst Expansion of Short-Term Plans
In July, a federal district court judge upheld the Trump administration’s rule expanding availabil...
States Leaning In: Washington Doubles Down on Efforts to Shore up Market, Protect Consumers
In the wake of federal actions to roll back the Affordable Care Act's reforms, states have assumed a...
Coming up Short: The Problem with Counting Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance as Coverage
In April, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of federal legislat...
States Step Up to Protect Insurance Markets and Consumers from Short-Term Health Plans
Short-term plans are now being sold to consumers as a replacement for Affordable Care Act (ACA) cove...
March Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
Spring has arrived, and the research is blooming! This March, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe was buzzing around...
New Study: Consumers Don’t Understand That Short-term Plans Lack Protections, Benefits
A study commissioned by consumer representatives to the National Association of Insurance Commission...
Affordable Care Act Back in the Spotlight: Build on its Progress or Scrap it Entirely?
It is hard to find a starker example of the different approaches our two political parties take to h...
Stakeholders React to the Administration’s Proposed Rule on Health Reimbursement Arrangements. Part 4: Consumer, Patient, and Union Organizations
In October, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services issued a proposed rule...
House Hearings Shed Light on a Key Policy Priority: Protecting People with Pre-Existing Conditions
After becoming a rallying cry in the midterm elections, pre-existing condition protections have take...
Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Health Reimbursement Arrangement Rule. Part I: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
In October 2018, the Trump administration proposed rules to expand the use of health reimbursement a...
The Marketing of Short-Term Health Plans: Industry Practices Create Consumer Confusion
A 2018 federal rule changing the definition of short-term limited-duration insurance (STLDI) has cre...
State Insurance Department Consumer Alerts on Short-Term Plans Come Up Short
Open Enrollment for 2019 has ended in most states, but consumers are sure to be bombarded with sales...
Trump Administration Hands States Another Tool for Dismantling Preexisting Condition Protections
Last week, the Trump administration issued long-anticipated guidance regarding the ACA's Section 133...
Virginia’s Enrollment Season Perfect Storm
Across the country, states are yet again dealing with policy changes just before the fall open enrol...
Coverage That (Doesn’t) Count: How the Short-Term, Limited Duration Rule Could Lead to Underinsurance
Any day now, the Trump administration is expected to publish new rules that will expand access to sh...
Bracing for an Affordable Care Act Enrollment Season Without Navigators: Risks for Consumers and the Market
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced on July 10, 2018 that they would fund up to...
Stakeholder Views on the Proposed Short-Term Plan Insurance Rule: Key Takeaways from Our Review of Comment Letters
In February, the Trump administration published a proposed rule to expand the availability of short-...
Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Short-term, Limited Duration Insurance Rule. Part IV: Short-Term Insurers and Brokers
The Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, and Treasury received over 9,000 comments on thei...
Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Short-term, Limited Duration Insurance Rule. Part III: State Insurance Departments and Marketplaces
The Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, and Treasury received over 9,000 comments on thei...
Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance Rule. Part II: Major Medical Insurers
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury received over 9,000 comments on th...
Stakeholders Respond to the Proposed Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance Rule. Part I: Consumer Advocates
Earlier this year, the Trump administration proposed rules to relax federal restrictions on short-te...
Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance and Risks to California’s Insurance Market
In a new California Health Care Foundation issue brief, CHIR’s Dania Palanker, Kevin Lucia, JoAnn ...
States Leaning In: Washington
Since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, states have embraced the law to varying degrees. W...
New Georgetown – Urban Institute Report Finds Health Plans Bracing for More Federal Uncertainty Over Affordable Care Act
Researchers from Georgetown CHIR and the Urban Institute have released a new report documenting the ...
Making Short-Term Plans a Long Term Coverage Option: Risks to Consumers and to Markets
The White House and Secretary of Health & Human Services have recently called for making short-term ...
Proposed Federal Changes to Short-Term Health Coverage Leave Regulation to States
The Trump administration issued proposed rules on February 20, 2018 that rescind Obama-era restricti...
Proposed Federal Changes to Short-Term Health Coverage Leave Regulation to States
The Trump administration is expected to reverse federal limitations on short-term insurance, which ...