During the first year of Obamacare’s implementation, the individual insurance market became less healthy while the uninsured and Medicaid populations became healthier, according to a new analysis. A Health Affairs data analysis released Wednesday underscores the often stated observation that the Affordable Care Act has brought sicker, more expensive enrollees into the individual marketplace while healthier people have tended to resist enrollment. The analysis uses information in the National Health Interview Survey, conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. It was conducted by officials from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Congressional Budget Office, and Social and Scientific Systems. “Our analysis suggests that people newly taking up coverage in 2014 were less healthy than the broader uninsured population in the previous year, before the implementation of the ACA’s insurance expansion provisions,” the report concludes.
https://morningconsult.com/2016/07/06/report-aca-enrollees-less-healthy-uninsured-healthier/
