Health insurance plans for members of Congress are gold-level Affordable Care Act...
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro talks with people lined up to enroll for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act at the Alamodome Monday, March 31, 2014 as his wife Anna looks on.WASHINGTON — News this week that U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro is undergoing cancer treatment drew renewed attention to congressional health insurance plans — gold-level Affordable Care Act coverage similar to that gaining popularity in Texas.Rep.
details on the plans Texans picked are not yet available. In 2022, about 173,500 of the 1.8 million Texans who enrolled for coverage through the ACAMembers of Congress including Castro, 48, who on Monday revealed he underwent surgery in Houston for a type of cancer that experts say is rare but manageable with treatment, receive gold-level health insurance through the ACA marketplace in the District of Columbia.
in the nation for three years in a row. Enrollment in the Texas marketplace has more than doubled in three years, with an additional 570,000 Texans enrolled in 2023, the largest net increase of any state, Pogue said.enrollment was already underway after Congress offered more generous federal subsidies during the pandemic, which have since been extended through 2025.
Because most people rely on silver plans, which are more affordable than gold and cover some out-of-pocket costs for low-income buyers, most insurers compete to offer the lowest cost for those plans. That was driving up the cost of other plans, including gold. By doing its own rate review, he told them, Texas was taking control back from the federal government. It wasn't expanding any kind of government health care, but rather boosting consistency and honesty in pricing of private insurance offered on the ACA exchanges.
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