On September 10, 2024, Paragon’s research paper “It’s Not Just the Prices,” by Daniel Cruz and Greg Fann, was referenced in The New York Times.
From the article:
Health policy experts have said that his administration could broadly undermine the Affordable Care Act in a kind of piecemeal fashion without seeking a repeal effort from congressional Republicans. And if the enhanced subsidies expire next year without being extended, many of those who have signed up for marketplace plans in recent years may forego one in 2026.
Some conservative experts have continued to argue that the law needs major reforms, criticizing the quality of plans and the cost of the subsidies that pay for them. Researchers at the Paragon Health Institute, a conservative policy research organization, said in a recent report that fewer Americans were enrolled in marketplace plans that had a broad range of providers in their network.
In previewing the data on Monday, federal officials said that the numbers showed how versatile the marketplace offerings could be, covering some people continuously since 2014, others for just a few months at a time, and others in an on and off way when they have found other sources of coverage before coming back to a marketplace plan.