Coverage

Misalignment between Premiums and Coverage Generosity Imposes Heavy Cost Burdens on Consumers in Health Insurance Exchanges

This report finds that consumer costs in the individual market were nearly $6 billion too high in 2020 because premiums in health insurance exchanges were not set consistently with Affordable Care Act...

The American Rescue Plan Makes the Greatest Improvements to Health Coverage and Affordability in More than a Decade

The American Rescue Plan (ARP), which President Biden recently signed into law, takes the most significant steps in more than a decade to lower families’ health care costs and provide insurance to p...

Health Care Drumbeat: New Polling and Messaging to Move Federal Action in 2021

With the American Rescue Plan now signed into law, and the 117th Congress and new Administration starting to think through next steps, we want to continue the drumbeat for action on health and health...

The Urgent Need to Better Support Home- and Community-Based Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Call to Action for State Advocates

Under the newly enacted American Rescue Plan, states can receive increased Medicaid funding from the federal government from April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022, to “enhance, expand, or strengthen...

Health Care Drumbeat Digital Toolkit: Messaging & Polling to Move Federal Action in 2021

As the 117th Congress and Biden administration work on their next big policy package, we are all building the drumbeat for action on health and health care. Based on extensive messaging research and r...

Voters to Congress and President Biden: It’s Time to Go Big on Health Care Reform

On March 17, Families USA and Hart Research Associates hosted a media briefing for the release of new polling data showing how COVID-19 has put health and health care reform at the top of ...

Appendix 2- The Catastrophic Cost of Uninsurance, By County: COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Closely Tied to America’s Health Coverage Gaps

This appendix estimates the impact of health coverage gaps on COVID-19 cases and deaths, at the county level. It begins by listing the individual counties that have experienced the greatest total impa...