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