Coverage

Keeping Coverage Affordable: Addressing CHIP “Premium Stacking”

This fact sheet examines the difficulty some low-income families will face with affording health coverage in the health insurance marketplaces. While the Affordable Care Act was designed ensure tha...

How the Midterm Elections Could Impact People in America with Preexisting Conditions: National and Key State Fact Sheets, Infographics, and Tables

This midterm election season, some candidates want to take away health insurance protections for people with preexisting conditions. This would allow health insurers to return to abusive practices tha...

The Promise of Care Coordination: Transforming Health Care Delivery

The Affordable Care Act includes opportunities for creativity in health care coordination programs. Care coordination is the concept of health care professionals working with patients to ensure that p...

Seven State Options to Reduce the Number of Uninsured (and Stabilize Insurance Markets)

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) added 20 million people to the ranks of the insured, comprising our country’s largest coverage expansion since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid more than 50 years ...

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...