Chart of the day: Subsidies change everything

There has been an expression of concern among some analysts about the three-to-one age-based community rating of premiums in the ACA exchanges. You can basically throw all that out the window for most subsidized consumers, those with incomes below 400% of the federal poverty level. Want to see the evidence in a chart? It’s on the LDI site. Take a look!

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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