Monitoring the impact of health reform on American's ages 50--64: fewer Americans ages 50--64 have difficulty paying family medical bills after early ACA marketplace implementation
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Insight on the issues (AARP Public Policy Institute)
- Author(s):
- Skopec, Laura, author Waidmann, Timothy A., author Sung, Jane, author Dean, Olivia, author
- Contributor(s):
- AARP (Organization) Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization))
- Publication:
- Washington, DC. : AARP Public Policy Institute, January 2016
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Financing, Personal Health Care Reform -- economics Health Insurance Exchanges -- economics Insurance Coverage -- economics Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data Insurance, Health -- economics Insurance, Health -- statistics & numerical data Continental Population Groups Ethnic Groups Health Services Accessibility -- economics Health Services Needs and Demand Healthcare Disparities Medically Uninsured Middle Aged Humans United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- New data from the Urban Institute and the AARP Public Policy Institute show improvements in several measures of health care affordability for 50- to 64-year-olds over the first two open enrollment periods of the ACA.1 Between December 2013 and March 2015, the number of 50- to 64-year-olds reporting difficulty paying family medical bills or unmet health needs due to cost dropped. Despite improvements, health care affordability remains a concern among this age group. In March 2015, over 1 in 10 people ages 50 to 64 reported difficulty paying family medical bills, and nearly 1 in 3 experienced an unmet health need due to cost. Though those with continuous health coverage faced fewer affordability barriers than those who were uninsured or insured for only part of the year, 1 in 4 still experienced an unmet health need due to cost. Some vulnerable subgroups also continue to experience more difficulty affording care than others. Disparities exist even among 50- to 64-year-olds who are continually insured. This brief examines some important measures of health care affordability. Other aspects of affordability, such as having health care costs that exceed a set percentage of household income, were not measured in this survey.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101691443 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101691443