Issue Briefs , Reports | Jan 8, 2016

A Look at Marketplace Models: How Can They Help States Achieve Their Goals?

Wakely Consulting Group and KPMG

The recently released Proposed Payment Notice for 2017 formalizes a fourth model of marketplace – State-Based Marketplace/Federal Platform. Along with State Based Marketplaces, State Partnership Marketplaces and the Federally Facilitated Marketplace, states have a range of choices for what their Marketplace looks like. A key question for states will be how these different models help to achieve coverage goals. This issue brief written by State Network Technical Assistance Experts at Wakely Consulting Group and KMPG digs into the different models and how they stack up against a set of common goals for states.


Expert Perspectives

April 19, 2021

The American Rescue Plan’s Premium Tax Credit Expansion—State Policy Considerations

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the ARP), a wide-ranging package of health care and economic measures responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The ARP includes a broad expansion of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) main health insurance subsidy, the premium tax credit (PTC), the first major expansion of the health care reform law since its passage. This piece highlights the policymaking considerations that states must account for in light of the PTC expansion and uncertainty about future federal action. A key theme that emerges is that states will benefit from approaches that give them the flexibility to adjust policies year by year as the federal landscape develops.