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The Affordable Care Act: Success or Failure?
1. The Affordable Care Act:
Success or Failure?
April 15, 2014
Edward H. Yelin, PhD
Professor
Janet Coffman, PhD
Associate Professor
Philip R. Lee Institute for
Health Policy Studies
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Outline
• The logic of health insurance
• Major provisions of the
Affordable Care Act
• Implementation of the Affordable
Care Act to date
• What’s next?
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Logic of Health Insurance: Beneficiaries
• Prevent economic calamity (stop big losses)
• Make expenses predictable (small copays,
deductibles, coinsurance, and charges for share
of premium vs. periodic large payments when
services needed)
• Buy health care (don’t put off what should be
done now)
– Across continuum from preventive care at one
end through chemotherapy at the other
• Buy health (and ability to be able to do things
that are valued)
Whether having health insurance buys health is
beside the point.
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Logic of Health Insurance: Health Plans
• Stay in business (collect more in premiums than pay
out for health care plus administrative overhead)
– Make expenses predictable (premium costs and beneficiary
cost sharing based on reliable estimates of usage)
– Minimize costs
• Achieve a good actuarial mix of beneficiaries
– Old system: avoid people with pre-existing conditions
– New system: entice more people who are young to offset
older and sicker
• Lower utilization
– Old system: don’t provide all services, e.g. mental health,
maternity
– Old and new: use of cost sharing, utilization review, etc.
• Pay providers less
– Selective contracting with pharmacies, hospitals, doctors
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Logic of Health Insurance: Health Providers
• Stay in business (collect more than it costs to
provide services)
– Collect more from health plans (negotiate higher
rates)
– Reduce uncompensated care
– Provide a mix of services that is more profitable
– Reduce costs of providing services (negotiate with
suppliers, including employees)
AMA and American Hospital Association were strong
advocates for the ACA because it promised to reduce
the amount of uncompensated care.
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ACA Bargain
• Extend benefits of group plans to individual
insurance markets
– Create larger pools to increase predictability
• Provide subsidies to encourage more
people to obtain health insurance
• Alter mix within pools
– Create healthier pools to amortize cost of adding
people with pre-existing condition clauses
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Benefit of Altering Mix within Pools:
Annual Medical Care Expenditures, by Age,
U.S., 2009
Source: Analysis of 2009 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey
$0
$1,000
$2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
18-34 35-64 18-64
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Two Major Sets of Provisions
• Insurance reform
• Expand access
• Provide better coverage
• Control costs
• Health system reform
• Improve quality and efficiency
• Strengthen workforce and infrastructure
• More emphasis on public health and
prevention
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• Most citizens and legal immigrants must
have coverage
• Tax penalty if no coverage. In 2014 the
higher of
• $95 per adult ($47.50 per child)
• 1% of annual household income
• Exceptions for
• Gaps of less than 3 months
• Financial hardship
• Religious objection
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The Individual Mandate
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Rules for All Insurance Markets
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• Prohibitions on
• Lifetime limits on coverage
• Annual limits on coverage
• Cost sharing for recommended
preventive services (new policies
only)
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Individual Insurance Market Rules
• Guaranteed issue
• Cannot deny coverage for preexisting
conditions
• Cannot cancel coverage without proving
fraud
• Premiums can vary only based on
• Location
• Age - 3 age bands
• Tobacco use (not in California)
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• Available to
• Individuals and families
• Small business
• States chose whether to
• Establish their own exchange
• Participate in the federal exchange
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• State regulated “insurance
marketplaces”
• Can compare plans by quality and cost
• All plans offer the same “essential
benefits”
• Four standardized benefit designs
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Health Insurance Exchanges:
Essential Health Benefits
• Hospitalization
• Emergency services
• Outpatient care
• Prescription drugs
• Laboratory services
• Maternity and newborn care
• Preventive and wellness services
• Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
• Mental health and substance use disorder services
• Pediatric vision and dental
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Health Insurance Exchanges:
Metal Tiers
60%
70%
80%
90%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Bronze Silver Gold Platinum
Plan Pays Consumer Pays
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Health Insurance Exchanges:
Subsidies
• Subsidies for persons & families with
incomes 133-400% federal poverty level
($31,322 to $94,200 for a family of four)
• Premium tax credit toward purchase of
insurance
• Contributions capped at 2% to 9.5% of income
• Tied to lowest cost silver plan
• Cost-sharing tax credit (rebate on Out of Pocket
costs) - incomes 133% to 250% federal poverty
level
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Medicaid Expansion
• Historically, Medicaid eligibility varied
from state to state & generally excluded
low-income adults without children.
• Under the ACA, all citizens with incomes
below 133% FPL ($31,322 for a family of
four) eligible for Medicaid.
• The Supreme Court ruled that the federal
government cannot compel states to
expand Medicaid.
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Medicaid Reimbursement
• Concern about access to primary care
for new Medicaid enrollees
• Only 66% of primary care physicians in the
USA accepted new Medicaid patients in
2011
• Medicaid reimbursement rates are lower
than Medicare and private insurance rates
• On average Medicaid fees are 66% of
Medicare fees
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Sources: KCMU/Urban Institute Medicaid Physician Fee Surveys,
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
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Medicaid Reimbursement
• Increases Medicaid fee-for-service
reimbursement for primary care
physicians to Medicare rates
• States receive 100% federal matching
funds
• Only authorized for 2013 and 2014
• Health Homes
• Integrate and coordinate all primary, acute,
behavioral health, and long-term services and
supports for persons with chronic conditions
• State Medicaid agencies receive a 90% match from
the federal government
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Medicare Reimbursement
• Bonus payments of 10% for
• Primary care providers
• General surgeons in health professional
shortage areas
• Reduce payments to hospitals for
readmissions within 30 days
• Reduce payments for hospital acquired
conditions
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Medicare Reimbursement
• Bundled payment pilot projects
• Pay for episodes of care (3 days prior to
hospitalization to 30 days post-discharge)
• Single payment for inpatient, hospital
outpatient, physician services, and post-
acute care
• Accountable care organizations
• Groups of doctors, hospitals, and other
health care providers, who come together
voluntarily to give coordinated high quality
care to their Medicare patients
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Delivery System Reform
• Establishes new entities to assess the
impact of innovations in care delivery
• Patient Centered Outcomes Research
Institute
• Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation
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Health Workforce Development
• Health workforce planning
• Scholarship & loan repayment programs
• Grants to health professions schools to
• Increase supply in high priority professions
• Improve racial/ethnic diversity
• Enhance preparation for practice in underserved
areas
• Changes Medicare graduate medical education
payments to expand training in
• Primary care
• Ambulatory settings
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Medicaid
• 26 states and the District of Columbia
have expanded eligibility for Medicaid
• Under debate in IN, MO, PA, UT, VA
• California and some other states
transferred persons from other state
programs into Medicaid
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Medicaid
• Do not have good data on new
enrollment yet. HHS data lumps three
groups
• Renewals for existing enrollees
• Newly enrolled but eligible under pre-
ACA rules
• Newly enrolled due to eligibility
expansion
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• 16 states and the District of Columbia
established their own health insurance
exchanges
• 34 states rely on the federal exchange
• Number of states relying on the federal
exchange exceeded projections
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• Initial roll out was a flop
• Federal exchange website not reliable
for the first two months
• Covered California’s website worked
better but not problem free
• A few state exchanges’ websites still
aren’t working
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• An estimated 7.5 million Americans have
obtained health insurance through an exchange
• California has enrolled > 1.2 million persons -
more than any other state
• No solid data yet on how many exchange
enrollees were previously uninsured.
– Some who previously had individual insurance may
have switched to an exchange to obtain more
affordable or more comprehensive coverage
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• Enrollment trends vary by age and
ethnicity
• Early enrollees were disproportionately
over age 50 years but enrollment of
young adults rose substantially as the
deadline approached
• Enrollment of Latinos grew over time but
is still lower than among other ethnic
groups
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Rate of Uninsurance May be Falling
15.4%
16.4%
16.6%
17.5%
16.3%
15.9%
14%
15%
16%
17%
18%
Q1 2009 Q1 2010 Q1 2011 Q1 2012 Q1 2013 Q1 2014
% Uninsured
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Source: Gallup Healthways Well-being Index
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Delivery System Reform
• The ACA has been an catalyst for efforts
to improve health care value
• Medicare payment policies compelling
hospitals to focus on reducing readmissions
and health care acquired infections
• Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Innovation is providing substantial funding
for 7 categories of innovations
• Early findings are encouraging but
implementation is challenging
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Delivery System Reform
• Rate of increase in health care
expenditures has slowed
• Unclear whether the current slowdown
will be permanent
• Need to watch what happens as
• The economy rebounds
• The number of persons with health
insurance increases
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Average Annual Percent Change in National
Health Expenditures, 1960-2012
10.6%
13.1%
11.0%
6.7%
5.8%
6.4%
7.1%
8.4%
9.7%
8.6%
7.2%
6.8%
6.5% 6.3%
4.7%
3.8% 3.8% 3.6% 3.7%
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
1960 1970 1980 1990 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
SOURCE: Kaiser Family Foundation calculations using NHE data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group, at
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/ (see Historical; National Health Expenditures by type of
service and source of funds, CY 1960-2012; file nhe2012.zip).
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Medicaid
• Big questions about access to providers
• Some states that did not expand
Medicaid in 2014 may do so in 2015
• Governors do not like to leave federal
funds on the table
• Elections may change the balance of
power in some states
• Obama administration may allow more
states to purchase private coverage
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• Some insurers plan to seek double digit
premium increases but increases may
be attenuates due to
• Competition with other health plans sold
in exchanges may limit increases
• Risk adjustment for health plans with
sicker enrollees than average
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Health Insurance Exchanges
• Churn between the exchanges and
Medicaid is a bigger concern
– UC-Berkeley Labor Center estimates that
42.5% to 46.7% of Covered California
enrollees will leave within 12 months
– Most will leave because they become
eligible for Medicaid or obtain job-based
coverage
– Unclear how seamless transitions between
Medicaid and exchange coverage will be
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Dietz, Graham-Squire, and Jacobs, 2014
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/healthcare/churn_enrollment.pdf
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Employers
• Implementation of employer mandate
delayed
• 2015 for firms with > 100 full-time employees
• 2016 for firms with 50 – 99 full-time
employees
• Cadillac tax for high cost employer health
plans
• More employers may stop offering health
insurance
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Conclusion
• The ACA is stimulating major reforms in
• Health insurance
• Health care delivery
• These reforms have potential to improve
• Access to care
• Value (health outcomes per $ spent)
• Substantial variation in implementation due to
• State discretion re Medicaid expansion and health
insurance exchanges
• Use of demonstration projects to test new models
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