UnitedHealth Group Proposes Medicaid Buy-In, More Plan Choices

By Amy Lotven / October 9, 2020 at 3:45 PM
The nation’s largest insurer recently unveiled a health reform proposal under which states could use the Affordable Care Act’s waiver authority to move lower-income exchange enrollees into a new Medicaid buy-in program, which it says could lower costs by more than 40%, and regulatory authority for the individual market would be returned to the states. Both ideas are in UnitedHealth Group’s “ The Path Forward To A Next-Generation Health System ,” which has dozens of policy recommendations in four key...


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