Coverage & Access: Medicare, Medicaid & More

In this Insight, we broadly explore the issue of high health care costs, examine the impact on midlife adults with private coverage—including those with employer-sponsored and nongroup (individual) health insurance—and consider key solutions to begin addressing the cost burden on this population.

This paper discusses the Medicaid redetermination process, explores national and state estimates on disenrollments from NORC’s analysis, and examines policy implications for upcoming Medicaid enrollment.

Wyomingites' awareness and use of emergency medical services are relatively high, but there is a lack of consensus around who should pay for them.

To combat age discrimination in health care, older adults call for special training for health care providers on issues related to older patients.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) – now 14 years old – has played a critical role in expanding access to affordable health coverage for millions of adults ages 50 to 64, including through its health insurance Marketplaces.

This paper assesses changes in telehealth use from 2019 to 2021 among people younger than 65 who are enrolled in private, employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) plans, which insure nearly two-thirds of Americans under age 65.