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ACA Anniversary Countdown: 6 Days Until the ACA Turns 10

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This is the fifth 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 Monetary Caps In the first four blog posts of this series, we explain the […] Read More »

ACA Anniversary Countdown: 7 Days Until the ACA Turns 10

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This is the fourth 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 Requires Every Plan Cover 10 Essential Health Benefits In yesterday’s blog post, we highlighted the […] Read More »

ACA Anniversary Countdown: 8 Days Until the ACA Turns 10

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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 »

ACA Anniversary Countdown: 9 Days Until the ACA Turns 10

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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 »

ACA Anniversary Countdown: 10 Days Until the ACA Turns 10

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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 »

New Outreach Resources Available!

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While Open Enrollment Year 7 (OE7) has concluded, AAHD is still working with Community Catalyst and other partners in conducting outreach to educate individuals about health insurance literacy, special enrollment periods (SEPs) and other issues related to healthcare enrollment. Several new resources have been released this week which address a variety of issues. Links to […] Read More »

AAHD Opposes CMS’s Medicaid Block Grant Proposal

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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 »

State-Based Marketplace OE7 Deadlines

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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 »

Why We are Thankful for Medicaid

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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 »