Millions in Unsubsidized Health Insurance Market Face Uncertain 2017
Market Over Twice the Size of People With Government Exchange Insurance
(firmenpresse) - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/03/16 -- Given a risk of significant rate hikes in 2017, HealthPocket has released an analysis of the size and composition of the unsubsidized health insurance market. The market for unsubsidized health insurance has the greatest exposure to rate hikes among Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans because those who are subsidized have premiums capped at a percentage of their income. However, HealthPocket's analysis reveals that the unsubsidized market is multifaceted and not equally affected by price increases among ACA health plans.
Using government and other public data sources, HealthPocket estimated that there are . This market is over twice the size of the 2016 enrollees on government-based health insurance exchanges. Approximately . Higher rates would also continue to limit access to health insurance for the 3.7 million uninsured citizens who do not qualify for financial assistance and the 4.9 million uninsured immigrants who lack access to subsidies regardless of income. An additional 2.9 million people live in states without Medicaid expansion and make below than the federal poverty level, which excludes them from ACA subsidies, but still do not qualify for Medicaid health coverage. As with the other categories of uninsured, significantly higher rates will only make health insurance coverage less accessible for them.
Among the unsubsidized, there are from the pre-reform period that typically had lower premiums than ACA plans. It is unclear whether the displaced will migrate to the ACA market en masse or if higher rate conditions will disperse them across exchanges and current noncompliant health insurance alternatives. The fact that they choose to remain in noncompliant plans for as long as they have suggests that a significant portion will explore non-ACA alternatives in their health coverage shopping.
Some forms of non-ACA health coverage could witness further growth in 2017 should their existing price advantages expand due to significant rate increases among ACA plans. Since the public launch of the Affordable Care Act, growth has been reported among healthcare sharing ministries and term health insurance. The tax penalty for not having ACA compliant coverage has not led to declines among these types of coverage, likely due to issues such as exemptions and, in some cases, insurance cost advantages even when the penalty is paid alongside premiums. With respect to , the tax preparation service TurboTax reported that seven out of 10 customers who were uninsured or partially uninsured in the past two years claimed an exemption from the penalty.
The full breakdown of the populations within the unsubsidized health insurance market can be reviewed at "."
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