ACA offers protection as the COVID-19 pandemic erodes employer health insurance coverage

ACA offers protection as the COVID-19 pandemic erodes employer health insurance coverage

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Author(s):
Karpman, Michael, author
Zuckerman, Stephen, author
Contributor(s):
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, issuing body.
Urban Institute, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : Urban Institute, November 2020
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Insurance, Health
Medically Uninsured
Unemployment
COVID-19
United States
United States.
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic presents the first major test of how well the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can protect people’s health insurance coverage during a recession, as job losses threaten employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI). According to newly available data from the Urban Institute’s Coronavirus Tracking Survey, 1 3.1 million adults lost ESI between March/April and September 2020, but most of them retained some form of insurance with the ACA in place. However, the California v. Texas lawsuit the Supreme Court will hear on November 10, 2020, could put the protections offered by the ACA at risk.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 unnumbered pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
9918266093806676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918266093806676