Coverage

Background & Methodology: Repeal Bill’s Impact on Deductibles

How Senate repeal bill changes current law Current law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides premium tax credits (PTCs) to certain people with incomes between 100 and 400 p...

Stop, Shop, and Enroll for Health Insurance

Consumers can shop for health plans through the health insurance marketplace from November 1, 2015, through January 31, 2016 (open enrollment season). Many consumers have plans from 2015 and will s...

Medicaid: Health Insurance for Working Kentucky Residents

In 2014, Kentucky accepted federal funds to provide health insurance to more low-income residents through Medicaid. Medicaid expansion gives Kentucky residents with incomes below 138 percent of the fe...

5 Weeks Left to Choose a Marketplace Health Insurance Plan—Sprinting to the Finish Line

https://familiesusa.org/Marketplace%20Expert%20Insights%20on%20Open%20Enrollment/With five weeks left before the close of the second open enrollment period in the health insurance marketplace on Febru...

Protecting Consumers When Health Insurance Marketplaces Allow Direct Enrollment through Web Brokers

Some health insurance marketplaces allow “web brokers” to conduct direct enrollment. This means privately run web broker sites can enroll consumers in marketplace coverage and financial assistance...

The American Health Care Act Fails America

Republicans in the House of Representatives moved forward this week to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by introducing the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Rather than build on the ACA’s histori...

Momentum on Medicaid Expansion

Expanding Medicaid does more than extend health coverage to uninsured residents—many of whom are working Over the past few months, we have been closely monitoring the movement to expand Medicaid.�...

Kentucky’s Medicaid Expansion Yields Coverage and Access to Important Preventive Care

Two recent reports illustrate how residents of Kentucky are benefiting from Medicaid expansion. The state experienced one of the largest drops in its uninsured rate in the country and a substantial in...

Tennessee’s Medicaid Block Grant Proposal Will Hurt Families

This week, Tennessee released a proposal to block grant its Medicaid program based on legislation passed by state lawmakers this past spring. The proposal, entitled Amendment 42, is a radical restruct...

Medicaid Stakeholder Comments on Proposed Access Rule

On September 13, Families USA was joined by twenty other national Medicaid stakeholder organizations in a comment letter to the administration on their proposal to rescind the Obama era regulation to ...