Realizing Health Reform’s Potential The Affordable Care Act’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan: Enrollment, Costs, and Lessons for Reform
Issue Date
2012-09Author
Hall, Jean P.
Moore, Janice M.
Publisher
The Commonwealth Fund
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
Published Version
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/issue-brief/2012/sep/1627_hall_pcip_enrollment_costs_lessons_rb.pdfMetadata
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The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) is the temporary, federalhigh-risk pool created under the Affordable Care Act to provide coverage to uninsured individuals with preexisting conditions until 2014, when exchange coverage becomes avail-
able to them. Nearly 78,000 people have enrolled since the program was implemented two years ago. This issue brief compares the PCIP with state-based high-risk pools that existed prior to the Affordable Care Act and considers programmatic differences that may have resulted in lower-than-anticipated enrollment and higher-than-anticipated costs for the PCIP. PCIP coverage, like state high-risk pool coverage, likely remains unaffordable to most lower-income individuals with preexisting conditions, but provides much needed access to care for those able to afford it. Operational costs of these programs are also quite high, making them less than optimal as a means of broader coverage expansion.
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