A new report from Milliman, Inc. helps explain how the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage expansion, new benefits, and market reforms will impact individual market health insurance premiums in 2014. The report highlights how some provisions will increase premiums while others will make health care coverage more affordable for consumers. The focus of this report is to highlight the broad range of changes happening in the marketplace and the wide variation in impact that is likely to occur.
In this report we have quantified the total premiums by state that will be assessed and estimated per member per year costs of this assessment by line of business.
The Joint Committee on Taxation projects that the new premium tax contained in the health reform law will total $101.7 billion between 2013 and 2022.
The National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation released a study examining the private-sector job loss that will result from the health insurance premium tax.
A technical analysis by Oliver Wyman estimates that the new health insurance tax in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “will increase premiums in the insured market on average by 1.9% to 2.3% in 2014,” and by 2023 “will increase premiums 2.8% to 3.7%.” AHIP commissioned this report as part of its ongoing effort to raise awareness about the impact the tax will have on consumers, employers and public program beneficiaries.
The Marwood Group prepared this study on the impact of the health insurance premium tax on state Medicaid programs.
The Affordable Act imposes a fee on health insurers that amounts to a de facto “health insurance premium tax” that will raise the cost of health insurance for American families and small employers. Specifically, under the law, an annual fee applies to any U.S. health insurance provider, with the intent of raising nearly $90 billion over the budget window.