Health Insurance Exchange Subsidies Create Inequities


 

Publication Date: March 2010

Publisher: National Center for Policy Analysis (U.S.)

Author(s): Stephen Entin

Research Area: Health

Keywords: health exchange subsidies; health care

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill, as well as the Obama administration's "compromise" proposal, offer large subsidies to encourage low- and middle-income individuals and households to purchase health insurance from private insurers through a government-supervised health insurance exchange.