Austin health insurance premiums surge for employer-paid plans, making affordability an issue

Austin health insurance premiums surge for employer-paid plans, making affordability an issue , updated 3/31/22, 3:51 AM

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Rick Thornton, an Austin health insurance agent, said premium increases are because the cost of care is increasing, adding that there has been a 9.1% increase from when the ACA was first introduced in 2010.

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Health insurance in Austin along with the
millions of people who have enrolled in
Medicaid appear to be under fire now that
a recent study suggests millions of people
are considered to be ineligible, leading to
a staggering number of improper
payments.
According to data released by
the watchdog group, the
Foundation for Government
Accountability, 91 million people
have enrolled in Medicaid since
December 2021.
That's a boost of 18 million
people in two years, which
on paper, would normally be
considered good news.
According to the FGA, 17
million of those people
were ineligible.
It insinuates that many of these improper
payments - which include individuals and
families who now have health insurance in
Austin - are largely driven by "Ineligible patients
that states have been reluctant to remove."
Medicaid is a health insurance program for the
poor and has increased almost
Much of these increases
came after Medicaid was
expanded by the Affordable
Care Act.
"It's not a clear red state, blue state divide, but
the two highest states for improper payments
are states that expanded Medicaid under
ObamaCare." Rick Thornton, an Austin health
insurance agent, says that the FGA has once
again called for affected states to remove
ineligible enrollees and added
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