The Future Of Premium Assistance Through Waivers Under The Affordable Care Act

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/08/26/the-future-of-premium-assistance-through-waivers-under-the-affordable-care-act/

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Premium assistance is the use of public funding for the purchase of commercial health insurance. Historically, premium assistance has mostly enabled a small number of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients to enroll in health insurance through their employers by having the government pay all of the costs of coverage, except for some cases where the family contributes a small premium.