When it comes to obtaining health insurance for the self employed, consumers have several coverage options to consider, including ACA Marketplace individual and family health insurance, COBRA continuation of group coverage, Medicaid, insurance through a spouse’s health plan, and short-term health insurance.| healthinsurance.org
If you have a health plan in the individual market, on-exchange or off-exchange, you can probably just let it renew for the coming year without doing anything during open enrollment. But this is generally not in your best interest.| healthinsurance.org
Obamacare's annual open enrollment runs until January 15 in most states. Here's why you might want to enroll by December 15 anyway.| healthinsurance.org
Open enrollment for 2025 ACA (Affordable Care Act)-compliant health insurance is just around the corner. Let’s take a look at the various changes that consumers should be aware of this fall.| healthinsurance.org
More health insurance carriers are entering ACA's exchanges for 2022. Here's why you should pay attention to new health plans in your exchange.| healthinsurance.org
As of 2023, the IRS has fixed the ACA's "family glitch." The family glitch previously made millions of Americans ineligible for premium subsidies in the exchange, even though their cost for employer-sponsored family health coverage was unaffordable. This disproportionately affected lower-income families.| healthinsurance.org
According to Kaiser Family Foundation data, there are about 1.9 million people in the coverage gap across nine states (this does not include North Carolina, as Medicaid expansion will take effect there in late 2023). They aren't eligible for Medicaid, nor are they eligible for premium subsidies in the exchange.| healthinsurance.org
See if you're eligible for the Affordable Care Act's premium tax credits (premium subsidies), how subsidies are calculated, and why they are more robust in 2023.| healthinsurance.org
While the Affordable Care Act's premium subsidies help pay the cost of the health insurance itself, cost-sharing subsidies help to reduce out-of-pocket spending for eligible enrollees when they select Silver plans. The Trump administration eliminated federal funding for cost-sharing reductions, but the benefits are still available to eligible enrollees. And because the cost of cost-sharing reductions has been added to premiums, premium subsidies are much larger than they were prior to 2018.| healthinsurance.org
The ACA's subsidy cliff has been temporarily eliminated (through 2025), saving some health insurance buyers thousands of dollars per year.| healthinsurance.org
The Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period is the annual window during which individuals and families can compare the various health plans that are available and select the one that will best fit their needs for the coming year.| healthinsurance.org