This is the third in a series of blog posts celebrating the benefits that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides to people with disabilities. For the full list of prior and upcoming blog posts, see Friday’s news item. The ACA Prohibits Individual Underwriting In our first two blog posts in this series, we highlighted the […] Read More »

This is the second in a series of blog posts celebrating the benefits that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides to people with disabilities. For the full list of prior and upcoming blog posts, see yesterday’s news item. The ACA Provides for Guaranteed Renewability of Coverage In yesterday’s blog post, we highlighted the ACA’s prohibition […] Read More »

This is the first in a series of blog posts celebrating the benefits that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides to people with disabilities. For the full list of upcoming blog posts, see today’s news item. The ACA Prohibits Denial of Coverage for Pre-Existing Conditions Chances are that if you ask the average American what […] Read More »

AAHD has significant concerns about the Medicaid block grant proposal announced by CMS today and what it would mean for people with disabilities. Block grants may seem like they will provide greater flexibility to states, but in the end if the goal is to save money, it only means one thing – cutting enrollment or […] Read More »

Updated: February 14, 2020 Medicaid work requirements have been in the news a lot over the last few years ever since CMS issued new guidance on it. Previously we had a blog post which summarized our news items and resources on this topic and this post is intended to provide an updated list. Some states […] Read More »

Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7) ended yesterday, December 15 for marketplaces on the federally facilitated exchange (healthcare.gov)*. Some states who run their own state-based marketplace have an extended period for OE7. The following eight states have deadlines for their open enrollment periods as follows: California: January 20, 2020 Colorado: January 15, 2020 District of Columbia: January […] Read More »

This week is Disability Week of Action for Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7). This week, we have been posting in our blog about the Week of Action and highlighting health insurance enrollment for people with disabilities. The topics we have covered so far this week are: Monday: Introduction to Disability Week of Action Tuesday: What ACA Coverage […] Read More »

This week is Disability Week of Action for Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7). This week, we have been posting in our blog about the Week of Action and highlighting health insurance enrollment for people with disabilities. The topics of our first two blogs were: Monday: Introduction to Disability Week of Action Tuesday: What ACA Coverage […] Read More »

This week is Disability Week of Action for Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7). Yesterday, we posted a blog introducing you to the week as an opportunity to highlight enrollment for people with disabilities. Today we want to look at what coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) means for people with disabilities. Did you know […] Read More »