Choices, Competition Abound in 2022 ACA Exchange Market

October 29

When the annual open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act exchange plans kicks off on Nov. 1, consumers will be shopping in a market that is experiencing a surge of insurer competition and consequently, a dizzying array of plan choices.

“The number of plans that people are seeing is increasing dramatically,” David Anderson tells AIS Health, a division of MMIT. Anderson is a research associate at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy who studies the ACA marketplaces.

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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.