Category: Health Care Reform

America’s health care system is undergoing many changes – it’s hard for insurance professionals to keep updated let alone consumers. Here we make it easy and publish daily articles on the changes and challenges that health care reform has ahead.

It took 2 days to reach the Colorado health insurance cap for undocumented residents

G. Turner
Colorado Health insurance - File folders, medical, Colorado flag

According to experts, the program is now seeing greater demand than ever before. The Colorado health insurance program OmniSalud has opened coverage to low-income undocumented residents of the state as well as DACA recipients. The program offers coverage at affordable rates while providing additional financial assistance. That said, the Colorado health insurance program has a cap. This year, it took only two days for the 11,000 available plans to be filled. “What we know is that the vast majority of folks are living here without documentation are really struggling to…

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Florida health insurance shoppers can now look to Walmart

H. Cutner
Health insurance Shopping - Walmart logo

The retail giant has signed deals to make it possible to sell medical coverage to Floridians. Florida consumers looking for health insurance now have a new option available to them as Walmart has signed a deal with an insurer and hospital operator in the state, just as the Affordable Care Act open enrollment window begins for 2024 coverage. The deals will provide Floridians with another option as they consider their plans for next year. Walmart Health has now signed two separate health insurance deals in the state. The first was…

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2024 ACA health insurance premiums in Alaska to rise by 16 percent average

Marc
Health insurance - Alaska Flag - ACA

Consumers are reminded that most people will receive subsidies to cover most of that increase. Alaskan residents using the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplace will be experiencing an average increase in premiums of 16 percent for their coverage next year. This increase is lower than what Alaskans experienced for this year’s increase, which was 18 percent. There are several reasons that have combined to cause health insurance companies to raise the rates they charge for coverage next year. Though higher overall costs of care and a rise…

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Errors caused many low-income kids to be dropped from Medicaid health insurance

G. Turner
Health insurance - Kids, family, medical

Over 2 million children lost their coverage this year, but experts say that often, it was due to errors. At least two million kids from low-income families lost their Medicaid health insurance coverage this year as the federal policy from the pandemic era came to a close. This, according to new research analyses conducted by the KFF and the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. It is likely that the figure is notably higher, according to experts, as the shift occurred very quickly. According to a New York Times report,…

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Many lapsed Medicaid recipients will enroll in ACA health insurance plans

Logan B.
Health insurance - Affordable Care Act Form

Experts and insurers have predicted that after losing old coverage, there will be an influx of policy shopping. Health insurance companies and advisors alike are preparing for a notable surge of consumers looking for assistance in navigating Affordable Care Act enrollment after having lost Medicaid coverage in 2023. As of April, this year, the extensions for coverage that were put into place during the pandemic ended. Beginning April 1, 2023, the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage extensions that were put into place throughout the worst of the…

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