Manon Scales

Manon Scales is an Associate Online Editor with GPPReview and is finishing her first year in the Master of Public Policy/Juris Doctor joint-degree program at Georgetown University. She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011. Manon has interned for the Alliance for Health Reform in Washington, DC and the Public Education & Business Coalition in her hometown of Denver, Colorado. She hopes to pursue further work in economic and social policy research and management.

Health Insurance Coverage Gaps: A Result of State-Level Decisions

One of the primary goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to expand the availability of health insurance coverage and decrease the number of uninsured individuals. But a number of people will still remain uninsured, falling into the “coverage gaps” created by the Supreme Court decision that made the expansion of state Medicaid programs optional.

Individual Health Insurance Premiums Post-ACA: What You Get Depends on Where You Started

By Manon Scales With the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fast approaching, nothing has experts, policy makers, and voters on the edge of their seats quite like the release of individual insurance premium rates. It is a simple question–will rates rise or fall?–with an exceedingly complicated answer–it depends. As states have begun […]

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