Nearly 1 million uninsured children and parents, including about 300,000 uninsured children, would gain insurance coverage if American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Marketplace subsidy enhancements were made permanent.
Benchmarking private payment rates to Medicare prices could curb costs, but the effects will likely vary considerably by specialty. In our study, markups over Medicare prices across 17 specialties ranged from about 110 percent to 330 percent.
Despite concerns that the Medicaid expansion would cause access problems for previously eligible populations, Urban Institute researchers found strong evidence of coverage gains and no consistent evidence of provider access problems among previously eligible parents.
Under a public option in the nongroup and employer markets, households and employers would save about 10–11 percent. Under a capped rate policy, these markets would save about 20–25 percent.
Nearly 7 in 10 adults who reported unfair treatment or judgment when applying for public benefits also reported adverse consequences. People of color were more than twice as likely to report unfair treatment or judgment.
In recent testimony before the US Senate Finance Committee, Urban’s Linda Blumberg described federal successes in strengthening the safety net and addressed the future work needed to close significant gaps.
