Health_Care_Economics_Chapter04.pdf

As we arrived at Jan. 1st of this year, the Individual Mandate portion of the ACA for the Health Insurance Marketplace Exchanges went “live.” Now, we have closed the books on the extended March 31st deadline for registration for individuals to have health insurance. So, s ould individuals with preexisting conditions be able to purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Use information from your reading this week, supplemental materials and additional research (especially the ACA full implementation in 2014 regarding insurance enrollment and healthcare.gov) to explain why or why not.