With 2025 ACA Exchange Reg, Feds Seem to Have Georgia on Their Mind

  • Nov 17, 2023

    In the 2025 version of the government’s annual mega-regulation governing the Affordable Care Act exchanges, multiple proposals appear to be aimed at ensuring state-based marketplaces are adhering to the same standards that apply to the federal marketplace, HealthCare.gov. One health policy expert says it’s probably not a coincidence that the proposed policy changes would take effect the same year that conservative-leaning Georgia is slated to launch its own state-based exchange. 

    “I see some proposals in here that are trying to safeguard against efforts to reduce the quality of exchange operations or run an exchange on the cheap,” says Sabrina Corlette, co-director of Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms.  

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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