A new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the increase in the number of Americans who have reported mental health symptoms over the last year. In fact, comparing the number of adults reporting anxiety or depression in the first half of 2019 to those reporting the same symptoms in July 2020 shows an increase from […] Read More »

A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at the potential impact of the case pending before the Supreme Court related to the Affordable Care Act. The case of California v. Texas centers on the issue of the constitutionality of the ACA’s individual mandate. Previously, the Supreme Court had ruled that the individual […] Read More »

The Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL) will be hosting two webinars next week to highlight some of the research they have done. Dates and times for the webinar along with links to register are as follows: Monday, September 28, 2020 at 3:00 PM ET – The National Survey on Health and Disability […] Read More »

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has released its schedule for a nine-part webinar series for its Health Reform: Beyond the Basics project. This project provides technical assistance to navigators and other health insurance enrollment assisters and is designed to provide training in advance of Open Enrollment Year 8 (OE8). The webinar series […] Read More »

A recent change to the application on healthcare.gov allows for additional time to complete enrollment as a result of a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has resulted in a national disaster emergency. Our partners at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities summarized this FEMA SEP in an email as […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released a new analysis that examines the importance of consumer assistance programs – like the ACA navigators. The report shows that nearly 1 in 5 individuals use a consumer assistance program when shopping for coverage in the ACA marketplaces. Kaiser also found that there was a notable group of people […] Read More »

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that Medicaid enrollment increased with 1.2 million people enrolling from December 2019 through April 2020. This was after Medicaid enrollment had dropped for the prior two years (December 2017-December 2019). The rise in Medicaid enrollment in March and April was nearly universal across the country as […] Read More »

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at the early filings by health insurers with state regulators about premiums for the 2021 plan year. The analysis by Kaiser looked at 10 states plus DC where data was available. Some insurance companies indicated that COVID-19 played little to no effect on premiums for 2021 […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has done the analysis of how many people could be covered if the remaining 14 states were to expand their Medicaid populations. The analysis by Kaiser finds that 4.7 million people would be eligible to access coverage through Medicaid if their state was to expand their Medicaid population. Read More »

This past Friday, HHS issued its final rules for §1557 of the Affordable Care Act. Section 1557 is the civil rights portion of the ACA and prohibits discrimination in health care settings for a variety of populations, including people with disabilities. Links for the final rules as well as the HHS press release and fact […] Read More »