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Complimentary from the publishers of Health Insurance Marketplace News June, 2014

Accountable Care at a Tipping Point: Oliver Wyman ACO Research Findings

“In the process of opting to tax insurance premiums rather than limit the favorable tax treatment of employer (and most employee) contributions to health benefits, the resulting Cadillac tax provision in effect places a cap on insurance premiums. If not changed over time, it will have those effects. But there are opportunities to either fix the Cadillac tax details or, much better, replace it with a limit on the tax exclusion. Last spring, in its report on containing healthcare costs, the Bipartisan Policy Center offered such a proposal that was more progressive and raised more revenue than the Cadillac tax. Tax benefits to employees would remain a powerful reason for employers to continue providing health benefits.” Paul B. Ginsburg PhD, Norman Topping Chair in Medicine and Public Policy, Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management.

Early signs show Exchanges are succeeding at expanding coverage to previously uninsured individuals. According to the federal government, 87% of people who have enrolled in subsidized Exchange coverage were previously uninsured. Furthermore, Gallup reported that the uninsured rate in April was down to 13.4%, from 15% in March.

Excerpted from: Health Insurance Marketplace News, Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2014, "Studies, Surveys Attempt to Interpret Reform Development"

Five States' Health-Care Exchanges See Costly Fixes
The Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2014

I.R.S. Bars Employers From Dumping Workers Into Health Exchanges
The New York Times, May 25, 2014

Final 2015 HIX Rule Includes Measures to Stabilize Premium Rates
HealthLeaders Media, May 22, 2014

Just Why Did Some Marketplaces Fail?
Employee Benefit News/HIX, May 20, 2014

Deciphering the Data: Final Enrollment Rates Show Federally Run Marketplaces Make Up Lost Ground at End of Open Enrollment
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2014

Timeline for 2015 Health Insurance Marketplace Plans and Rates
Capstone Brokerage, May 16, 2014

This Month in Health Insurance Marketplace News

Studies, Surveys Attempt to Interpret Reform Developments
Lawsuits Limn the Edges of the ACA
Thought Leaders’ Corner: “To what degree will the rise of public and private Exchanges foreshadow a move away from employer-sponsored health insurance? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?”
Industry News with briefs regarding EmSprings, Department of Health and Human Services, and Inovalon
State Wrap-Up with briefs regarding Utah and California
Spotlight on Troubled State Exchanges

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