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Worry Less Spend Less: Out-of-Pocket Spending Caps Protect America’s Families

As health care costs have risen, more costs have been shifted to consumers, who must cope with higher deductibles, copayments, and co-insurance. To relieve consumers of some of this financial burden, ...

Navigators Need Not Be Licensed as Insurance Brokers or Agents

This brief explains the Affordable Care Act's requirement that state health insurance exchanges establish navigator programs to help consumers make informed choices. In some states, there's debate abo...

Video: Medicaid Proposals Facing Scrutiny

From Trump administration block grant proposals, to work requirements in the federal courts, to the waiver restrictions faced in the Capitol hallways of West Virginia; Medicaid waivers are under scrut...

The Health Care Law: Good News for Caregivers

Are you one of the 52 million Americans who take care of a spouse, parent, or other relative? If so, you know that caregiving can take an emotional and financial toll. Caregivers lose wages, postpone ...

The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Kansas’ State Budget

Kansas lawmakers are currently considering legislation that could expand Medicaid to 150,000 nonelderly, low-income Kansans. As lawmakers debate Medicaid expansion in the state’s legislature, Famili...

The Affordable Care Act: Provisions that Will Help Caregivers

Several provisions in the Affordable Care Act will result in more help for caregivers and more information being made available for them to make good choices about the care of their loved ones. This b...

Unpacking the Boasberg Decision on Medicaid Work Requirements

Federal Judge Boasberg struck down work requirements for the Medicaid program in both Arkansas and Kentucky. This March 28th webinar discussed the Judge's ruling and what it means for the future of Me...

Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities: Why It Is Important to Preserve the Maintenance of Effort Requirement in the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act prohibits states from reducing their Medicaid eligibility levels. This protection is called the "maintenance of effort," or MOE, requirement. Removing this protection would all...

Utah Waiver Proposal – A Bad Deal for Utah Taxpayers and Government

The Utah Department of Medicaid released its much-anticipated proposal for a Section 1115 Medicaid waiver seeking a “per capita cap” – or a limit on federal spending – on major portions of i...

Defunding the Affordable Care Act: Guilty of a Double Standard

Many in the House of Representatives plan to vote to defund or repeal the Affordable Care Act. What will millions of Americans lose? Important rights and benefits that House members would keep for the...