Open Enrollment Ends Today

PENNSYLVANIA – Open enrollment for health care under the Affordable Care Act for 2020 ends on Sunday, December 15.

The Pennsylvania Insurance Department has a free-to-use plan comparison tool at pa.checkbookhealth.org.

Pennsylvania has more options than before for health insurance. Highmark expanded into 14 new counties, including two counties that previously only had one insurer. And, there is one new provider, Oscar Health, which is offering insurance in five counties.

This is the last year Pennsylvanians will shop for Affordable Care Act plans on HealthCare.gov.

Next year Pennsylvania will operate its own health insurance marketplace in an effort to reduce the cost of individual plans.

The state-based health insurance marketplace, that was signed into law in July, will use federal subsidies collected through the Affordable Care Act to cover its costs.

The reduction in costs of running the marketplace instead of outsourcing it to the federal government will reportedly allow for the creation of a re-insurance fund that will pay some of the highest costs for insured individuals.


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