Presented before the House Select Committee on State Health Care Expenditures, this is an outline of the testimony offered by the Foundation’s director of research on the issue of government-subsidized insurance (in this case, the Children’s Health Insurance Program) competing with private sector coverage.
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Open Enrollment Season is upon us. It’s that time of year where employees, self-employed, businesses, and local governments start crunching numbers to see how much health insurance will cost next year—and, surprise of surprises, the answer is almost always “a lot more.” Worse yet, the Federal Budget impasse and Government shutdown over ACA healthcare subsidies...
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