An analysis of conditions in five states found that “substantial numbers” of people would buy coverage through health insurance exchanges under the healthcare reform law, according to a release by the Rand Corp.
To help state governments decide how to deal with the reform law, Rand used a microsimulation model to estimate how health coverage expansion policies would affect residents in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Montana and Texas.
The state studies also found most new Medicaid enrollees would be newly eligible under the reform law, but increased enrollment of those previously eligible will cost the states more.
Also, total health care spending would increase in all the surveyed states except Connecticut, where some low-income people already covered under the state’s own program would be shifted over to Medicaid.
Read the Rand Corp. release on healthcare reform.
Read more coverage of health insurance exchanges.
– House Panel Votes to Defund Exchanges, Public Health Fund
– Report: Multi-State Insurance Exchanges Unlikely to Focus on Risk-Sharing
– Wisconsin Shows Progress With Health Insurance Exchanges
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