The Kaiser Family Foundation has released an updated brief on the “coverage gap” in states that do not implement the Medicaid expansion under the ACA. Many adults within this gap earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to qualify for Marketplace premium tax credits. This KFF brief gives estimates of the number […] Read More »

Today marks the 9-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) becoming law. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has a new chartbook which outlines many of the accomplishments of the ACA especially in the areas of reducing uninsured rates across demographic groups. Thursday afternoon, we participated in a Twitter chat with Raising Women’s Voices and […] Read More »

A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) examines the cost to consumers for prescription drugs as you move through the formulary tiers. Read More »

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently updated their reference chart on Special Enrollment Periods (SEPs). The reference chart goes through the available SEPs and provides helpful information, such as whether someone needed to be covered before and the timing for the SEP. CBPP also conducted a recent webinar on SEPs, and now […] Read More »

A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at the affordability of health insurance premiums for plans on the ACA marketplace. The brief entitled “How Affordable are 2019 ACA Premiums for Middle-Income People?” looks at the population of consumers who are above 400% of the Federal Poverty Level (“FPL”) and therefore are not […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has a new issue brief which looks at the number of claims which marketplace plans are denying and whether or not consumers are appealing those denials. Kaiser’s research shows that nearly one out of every five claims made to marketplace insurers are being denied, but the vast majority of those (over […] Read More »

Families USA has released a new fact sheet entitled “The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on State Budgets.” Read More »

The Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL) has developed chart books about the healthcare utilization and expenditures of working-age people with and without disabilities from 2008-2016. The results are available in both PDF and Excel spreadsheets on the CHRIL website. Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released an issue brief which looks at a new trend by states requesting approval from CMS to expand Medicaid only up to 100% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) instead of the ACA’s intended expansion up to 138% of FPL. In the explainer “Partial Medicaid Expansion with ACA Enhanced Matching […] Read More »