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Rate Review: How to Challenge Unreasonable Health Insurance Premium Increases
PDATE (August 3, 2015): Obama Administration Urges States to Cut Health Insurers' Requests for Big Rate Increases, The New York Times. When health insurance companies want to raise premium rates, ...
View MoreHealth Insurance Marketplaces: Who is enrolling
The first half of the open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces ended in December 2013. This graphic highlights basic data on consumer enrollment in state-based and federally facili...
View MoreHealth Insurance Marketplaces: Who is enrolling
The first half of the open enrollment period for the health insurance marketplaces ended in December 2013. This graphic highlights basic data on consumer enrollment in state-based and federally facili...
View MoreHealth Care Voters Face Critical Choices in the States in 2018
The health care voter in 2018 will be weighing more than the fate of the Affordable Care Act in Congress. The outcome in many states will determine whether health care options are available for famili...
View MoreAn Advocate’s Guide to Analyzing Insurers’ Financial Health
When health insurance companies want to raise premium rates, states use a process called "rate review" to decide whether proposed increases are justified. By participating in rate review, consumer adv...
View MoreHealth Insurance Down Payments: The Maryland Plan
Update 2/26/2018: New data from Urban Institute show why Maryland needs the Protect Maryland Health Care Act. Update 2/20/2018: The Maryland General Assembly holds hearings this week on the bill...
View MoreEvaluating the Consumer Window-Shopping Experience in Health Insurance Marketplace Websites: A Comparative Analysis
Today’s consumers have four goals in mind when they visit marketplace websites to shop for health insurance: to easily understand and compare health plan options, find out if they are eligible for f...
View MoreKing v. Burwell Fallout: 6.4 Million at Risk of Losing Health Insurance
The Supreme Court ruling later this month in King v. Burwell could threaten the health coverage of millions of people. Our series of state-specific infographics shows that in each congressional dist...
View MoreIdaho Insurance Plans Violate Health Care Law and Require Federal Action
Update March 8, 2018: The Trump administration told insurers and regulators in Idaho that they cannot sell health plans that don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the Centers for...
View MoreComparing Consumers’ Window-Shopping Experiences in Health Insurance Marketplace Websites: An Analysis
This graphic was produced as part of a report that analyzes how effectively all 16 state-run health insurance marketplace websites (including D.C.) and the federal healthcare.og site allow consumers...
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