Navigating Healthcare via "The Health Care Handbook:" A Conversation with Co-Author Nathan Moore (November 19th)
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Listen Now Despite signifcant press coverage over the past four and a half years many provisions of the Affordable Care Act remain largely unknown to the American public. Polling data shows slightly less than half of Americans know the ACA is still law, over half said they've heard nothing about the state marketplaces and over a third do not know there's a penalty for not having health insurance. More generally, researchers have found Americans have a low health insurance literacy rate. Less than half of those polled were unable to describe an insurance deductable. None of this is surprising when you realize how complicated health care financing and delivery is. For example, the recently published final rule that describes changes to how Medicare will pay physicians in 2015 was well over 1,000 pages.
Navigating Healthcare via "The Health Care Handbook:" A Conversation with Co-Author Nathan Moore (November 19th)
Navigating Healthcare via "The Health Care…
Navigating Healthcare via "The Health Care Handbook:" A Conversation with Co-Author Nathan Moore (November 19th)
Listen Now Despite signifcant press coverage over the past four and a half years many provisions of the Affordable Care Act remain largely unknown to the American public. Polling data shows slightly less than half of Americans know the ACA is still law, over half said they've heard nothing about the state marketplaces and over a third do not know there's a penalty for not having health insurance. More generally, researchers have found Americans have a low health insurance literacy rate. Less than half of those polled were unable to describe an insurance deductable. None of this is surprising when you realize how complicated health care financing and delivery is. For example, the recently published final rule that describes changes to how Medicare will pay physicians in 2015 was well over 1,000 pages.