The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Dear John,
The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces can be challenging to navigate. California found a way to curb plan selection errors.
Reducing Choice Errors In ACA Plan Selection
Signing up for health insurance through the ACA Marketplaces can be confusing. Some families end up selecting objectively “inferior” plans, compared to other options available to them. Andrew Feher and Isaac Menashe study theuse of
postal and email messages to reach people who made choice errors in Covered California (that state’s insurance Marketplace) and conclude that those messages reduce plan selection errors by 3.9 percentage points. For more on the ACA, Katie Keith covers how the American Rescue Plan Act expands the ACA in May’s addition to our “Eye On
Health Reform” series. Today on Health Affairs Blog: Brian Hughes and coauthors share lessons for treating “Long COVID,”while Dina Fradkin and colleagues explore policies to
improve behavioral health integration. Elevating Voices: Asian American and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Amitabh Chandra and colleagues wrote in 2017 on the challenges to reducing discrimination and health inequity through existing civil laws.
Lowering Medicare Eligibility May Improve Cancer Outcomes
Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Gerard Silvestri from the Medical University of South Carolina on cancer outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries and their younger uninsured counterparts.
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