Last night a federal judge in Texas struck down the Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional. In this case, the legal challenge to the law was based on the fact that Congress eliminated the penalty for the individual mandate in last year’s tax bill and the Supreme Court had previously ruled that the individual mandate of […] Read More »

A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation reports that 4.2 million people who are uninsured could get a bronze plan in the ACA marketplace with no premiums. Rising premiums on silver plans allows for financial assistance under the healthcare law being high enough to completely cover the cost of bronze plans. Roughly 10% (15.9 […] Read More »

Last week, we highlighted the recent announcement made by the CMS Administrator on new guidelines for section 1332 waivers under the ACA. Waivers under section 1332 allow states to make changes to the way the marketplace operates within their state and CMS says the new guidelines will provide states greater flexibility. In the new issue […] Read More »

Open Enrollment Year 6 (OE6) ends on Saturday for most of the country and the Kaiser Family Foundation has a new fact sheet with statistics on key facts about the uninsured population. The data shows that the number of uninsured had dropped to under 27 million people in 2016 but went up by 700,000 in […] Read More »

The end of open enrollment is just over a week away but many people don’t know it (check out last week’s news item). AAHD is working with Community Catalyst and other partners in educating individuals about enrolling for health insurance for 2019 and we have countdown graphics like the one to the right which can […] Read More »

LOOKING FOR: Adults ages 18 to 63 with any type of disability and/or chronic health condition to participate in interviews about their experiences accessing health insurance and health care services* *people of color and males are especially encouraged to participate The Collaborative on Health Reform and Independent Living (CHRIL), is a 5-year research project funded by […] Read More »

A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families shows that for the first time since the ACA was fully implemented, the rate of children who did not have any form of health insurance coverage increased from 4.7% in 2016 to 5% in 2017. Read More »

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Eligibility Determinations and Enrollment Report from September 2018. This report can also be found on our Resources & Links page under “Enrollment Statistics.” Prior Medicaid enrollment reports from CMS, are archived on our website. Read More »

The latest tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation asked people if they knew when the deadline was to enroll for health insurance on the ACA marketplace and more than 3 out of 4 people either said they didn’t know or gave the wrong answer which demonstrates the importance of doing outreach and educating the […] Read More »

Happy Thanksgiving week! As you know, this week is Disability Week of Action and we at the American Association on Health & Disability are focusing on why we are #Thankful4Coverage and #Thankful4Medicaid. We wanted to share some more materials and resources to use this week and thank you to Community Catalyst and Young Invincibles for […] Read More »