Showing posts with label Child Health Plus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child Health Plus. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2020

"Anyone without health insurance can apply now" -- way to keep it simple, NYSOH

I have criticized messaging on ACA exchanges that's likely to confuse the majority of people newly uninsured after being laid off in the current crisis.  The main problem is that the exchanges submerge information about Medicaid, which is likely to insure more than twice as many newly uninsured people as is the ACA marketplace for private plans. Many who are eligible for Medicaid are likely never to find that out on the exchange websites.

Having obsessed about this a bit (1, 2, 3), I was pleased to encounter a Twitter ad from the New York ACA exchange, New York State of Health, that IMO gets the messaging right: