Coverage

Affordability Together: How Congress Can Cut Health Costs for People Who Buy Their Own Insurance

Despite the Affordable Care Act’s major improvements to the country’s health insurance system, health care costs remain unaffordable for many families. Much attention has focused on the problems o...

Maryland’s Down Payment Plan: Helping People Get Health Insurance and Lowering Families’ Health Costs

Both before and especially after President Trump and his congressional allies ended federal enforcement of the ACA’s individual mandate, several states established their own enforcement systems. Mar...

Reinsurance 101: A Framework for State Advocates and Policymakers

In state houses all across the country, advocates, legislators, and state officials are considering proposals to restore the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) temporary reinsurance program, which ende...

Republicans Seek to Pay for Tax Cuts for the Rich on the Backs of the Poor

On the way to repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Republicans have decided to tack on a major restructure of the entire Medicaid program, capping and cutting America's health insurance program fo...

Magic Mitch’s Bag of Health Care Tricks

Mitch McConnell can’t afford to lose Republican votes if he wants to push through the terrible Senate Republican “Better Care Act,” a massive tax cut for the rich masquerading as a health care p...

Maryland’s Easy Enrollment Health Program

Broad bipartisan majorities in the Maryland Senate and House, by margins of 46-0 and 119-12, have approved legislation to establish a simple and seamless system for obtaining health coverage. Under ...

CBO Shows That Medicaid Cuts Grow Only More Severe Over Time

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has supplemented its report on the impact of the proposed Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) with a new projection of Medicaid cuts from 2027-2036. The analysi...

Seniors’ Premiums Skyrocket under Senate Repeal Bill

In June, the Senate introduced a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act that sharply increases premiums for people who need affordable health care the most and inflicts massive cuts to Medicaid.

Latino Health at Risk: What the American Health Care Act Would Mean

Access to quality health coverage and care is essential to living a healthy life. The Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare), has helped provide coverage to 20 million Americans, including...

Senate Health Care Repeal Bill Means Job Loss

As Senators craft their Affordable Care Act repeal bill, they should remember that there are large economic and employment consequences to cutting and restructuring the nation’s health care system.�...