Coverage

Does Your Candidate Actually Support Protections for People With Preexisting Conditions? The Three-Part Test

Many members of Congress and other policymakers have taken actions that do not support protections for people with preexisting conditions, and instead support policies that would let insurance compani...

Beware! New Guidance on Section 1332 Waivers Opens  the Way for Serious Harm

Under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, states are allowed to apply for state innovation waivers that waive certain parts of the act’s requirements1 for private health insurance and marketpl...

Are You Eligible to Receive Health Insurance Tax Credits?

To find out if you may be eligible to receive help paying for health insurance premiums, answer these questions for each person in your family. These infographics provide a quick look at how many p...

Affording Health Coverage in 2014

Low- and Middle-Income Americans Will Receive Tax Credits to Help Pay for Health Insurance. Starting in 2014, Americans earning up to four times the federal poverty level (currently $47,100 for an ind...

Proposed Program Integrity Rule: The Potentially Good and the Bad

UPDATE: 1/8/19 - Links to Families USA's comments on the proposed Program Integrity Rule are available here. On November 7, 2018—the morning after Election Day—the Trump administration propos...

Help Is at Hand: New Health Insurance Tax Credits

To ensure that everyone can afford health coverage, the Affordable Care Act provides financial assistance to help low- and middle-income people buy health insurance in the new health insurance marketp...

Think You Know about Association Health Plans? Here Are Five Facts You May Not Know

Due to changes made through recent federal rules issued by the Trump administration, small businesses and self-employed business owners can buy health plans through associations that are exempt from...

Amici Curiae Brief of Families USA, Community Catalyst, The National Health Law Program, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Service Employees International Union Supporting Intervenor Defendants-Appellants and Reversal of the District Court

Families USA filed an amicus brief in the Texas v. US case that threatens the entire Affordable Care Act, on appeal in the US Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit. Cosigners of the amicus include t...

The Return of Churn: State Paperwork Barriers Caused More Than 1.5 Million Low-Income People to Lose Their Medicaid Coverage in 2018

In 2018, enrollment in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program decreased by about 1.6 million enrollees, 744,000 of which were children. The three states with the largest percentage drops...

Federal Standardized Health Insurance Plans Could Help Improve Access to Care without Raising Premiums

Health insurance companies should offer plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces that cover the cost of basic outpatient care—like primary care, specialty care, and prescription drugs—before ...