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Issue Brief Examines State Efforts to Make Coverage More Affordable

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The Commonwealth Fund and the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms have released a new issue brief which addresses what states have done to make individual coverage more affordable in the marketplace. The issue brief entitled “States Work to Make Individual Market Health Coverage More Affordable, But Long-Term Solutions Call for Federal Leadership” looks […] Read More »

January 24, 2020

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LAST CALL FOR HEALTH INSURANCE SURVEY The NIDILRR-funded Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL) is looking for adults with disabilities to complete an online survey about health insurance and health care services. For more information on the survey and to learn about the drawing they are having for gift cards, check out our […] Read More »

Brief Examines State of ACA Marketplace

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A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the state of individual marketplace as of the end of 2019. The brief entitled “Individual Insurance Market Performance in Late 2019” looks at the issue of whether or not the elimination of the individual mandate penalty affected the marketplace in any negative way. The report […] Read More »

January 10, 2020

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OVER 8 MILLION ENROLLED This week, CMS released the final numbers for Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7). During OE7, nearly 8.3 million people enrolled in a health insurance plan through healthcare.gov, including over 2 million new individuals. To learn more about the final enrollment numbers and for a link to CMS’s final Weekly Enrollment Snapshot, […] Read More »

CBPP Recaps Medicaid Work Requirements

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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has published a new blog post which summarizes what is going on at the state level on Medicaid work requirements. The blog recaps recent developments in Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire and Virginia. Read More »

CMS Releases Final Enrollment Numbers

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Yesterday, CMS released the final numbers for Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7). During OE7, nearly 8.3 million people enrolled in a health insurance plan through healthcare.gov, including over 2 million new individuals. These numbers are for all of the states which use the federally facilitated marketplace and not the state-based marketplaces. These enrollment numbers do […] Read More »

December 20, 2019

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OPEN ENROLLMENT CONCLUDES Please note: with the upcoming holidays, we will not have a NDNRC Update the next two weeks. The NDNRC Update will return January 10th. Happy Holidays from AAHD & Happy New Year! This week, Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7) concluded after an extension of time was provided for any consumers who may […] Read More »

5th Circuit Rules in ACA Case

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Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the Texas v. US case. This is the court case which challenged the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since the individual mandate penalty was eliminated in the 2017 tax law. Previously, the Supreme Court had held that the ACA was constitutional under the taxing […] Read More »

CMS Extends Open Enrollment

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This afternoon, CMS announced that they were extending open enrollment in the event that there were any technical difficulties which consumers encountered during the final hours of open enrollment over the weekend. The extension is going on now through Wednesday, December 18 at 3:00 AM ET. Note that the extension ends in the early morning […] Read More »