{"id":1685,"date":"2016-01-15T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2016-01-15T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T19:23:12","slug":"study-some-marketplace-customers-spend-25-percent-of-income-on-health-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Study: Some Marketplace Customers Spend 25 Percent Of Income On Health Expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Even with subsidies to make coverage more affordable, many people who buy health insurance on the marketplaces spend more than 10 percent of their income on premiums, deductibles and other out-of-pocket payments, a recent study found. Among those hit hardest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban.org\/sites\/default\/files\/alfresco\/publication-pdfs\/2000559-How-Much-Do-Marketplace-and-Other-Nongroup-Enrollees-Spend-on-Health-Care-Relative-to-Their-Incomes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the researchers said<\/a>, are\u00a0people who spend nearly a quarter of their income on health care expenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of talk about how high deductibles and out-of-pocket costs are in the Affordable Care Act, and a lot of anecdotes about that, and this [study] quantifies that in a more systematic way,\u201d said John Holahan, a fellow at the Urban Institute\u2019s Health Policy Center who co-authored the study. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/study-some-marketplace-customers-spend-25-percent-of-income-on-health-expenses\/?utm_campaign=KFF-2016-The-Latest&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25317058&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9uLI08OiTSTJjZBI0tSURL6bY_X4usG9LC6lq-QySdYowzPzkcqOhDcmcStRr8bV_P0ZUuwh7huOd0SLX_wIPC2WPyMw&amp;_hsmi=25317058\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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