What Is The Future Of The Basic Health Plan?

It has been five years since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and we’ve made it through two open enrollment periods on the health insurance marketplace, as well as many varieties of Medicaid expansion. One less talked about provision of the PPACA, which is situated between the Marketplace and Medicaid is the Basic Health Plan.

If you are unfamiliar with the Basic Health Plan (BHP), it is a partnership between state Medicaid agencies and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). The focus is to cover citizens with income between 133-200% of . . .