Abstract
Original article: Chattopadhyay, J. (2018). State Health Insurance Regulation and Self-Employment Rates After the Great Recession: The Role of Guaranteed Issue Mandates. Economic Development Quarterly, 32, 78-92. doi:10.1177/0891242417752249
My article indicated in endnote 2 and on page 82 that the ACA enables groups-of-one (and thus the “SENE”) to shop in the small-group market nationwide as of 2016. Instead, what the ACA does is enable a small business with “at least 1 FTE employee other than owners, spouses, and family members of owners, and partners” to seek Small Business Health Options Program insurance (HealthCare.gov, n.d., italics added). Thus, the type of cross-state variation in the use of guaranteed-issue for groups-of-one in the small-group market that my article studies still exists post-ACA. This error was reflected in material on page 82 and in endnote 2. Also parts of a sentence on page 87 of my paper reflect this same error in my original understanding of the ACA change. What my results align with, and lend support to, is Blumberg et al.’s (2013) premise that states that have used guaranteed issue for groups-of-one in the small-group market better support self-employment than states that have not.