Insurance Market Reforms and the Individual Insurance Marketplace: Implications for Coverage Expansions

Publication Date: October 1999

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Author(s):

Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Proposals that attempt to expand coverage in the private individual insurance market will only work if private insurance is available and affordable. This paper describes how the current individual marketplace will affect the ability of such proposals to assure equitable access to affordable coverage.
This paper is part of the Kaiser Incremental Health Reform Project.