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On the latest episode of The Dose podcast, Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, makes the case that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequities in health care too difficult to ignore. And she believes women will emerge “smarter and stronger” from this crisis.
The family glitch, which prohibits family members from enrolling in marketplace plans with lower premiums and cost sharing because one member of the family has an offer of “affordable” employer coverage, deprives millions of people of access to affordable coverage.
Nearly all Medicare Advantage and Part D plans contract with agents (brokers), who are not required to represent all available plans.
State-based health insurance marketplaces must act quickly to implement expanded coverage under the American Rescue Plan, including mounting unprecedented marketing and consumer assistance efforts.
Cindy Mann of Manatt Health explores the implications of these waivers, which, without federal action, could significantly set back health care coverage in these states for many years.
Arturo Vargas Bustamante and Sonja Diaz of UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Initiative argue that COVID-19 has made it even more important to increase immigrants’ trust and participation in public health benefit programs, including marketplace enrollment.
Traditional Medicare spending dropped sharply between March and May 2020, then returned to pre-pandemic levels but did not surpass them.
On The Dose podcast, Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park of AAPI COVID-19 Project discuss deep roots anti-Asian bias, how pandemic is affecting lives of Asians in U.S.
