Small-Group Insurance Market Remains Stable Under ACA

About half of small-firm employees worked for an establishment that offered health insurance from 2013 to 2020, and the small-group market has remained relatively stable since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent Urban Institute study. Employee coverage rates at small firms — which have fewer than 50 employees — dropped 2 percentage points, from 57.1% in 2013 to 55.1% in 2020. Meanwhile, employees’ contributions to single and family coverage in the small-group market rose during the study period by 2.3 and 6.0 percentage points, respectively. Though many people anticipated that small firms would transition to self-insurance to avoid ACA’s regulations, small firms were much less likely than larger firms to offer a self-insured plan between 2013 and 2020.

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Jinghong Chen

Jinghong Chen Reporter

Jinghong has been producing infographics and data stories on employer-sponsored insurance, public health insurance programs and prescription drug coverage for AIS Health’s Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits since 2018. She also manages AIS Health’s annual executive compensation database for top insurers and Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliates. Before joining AIS Health, she interned at WBEZ, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times Chinese. She graduated from Missouri School of Journalism with a focus on data journalism and international reporting.

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