As we discussed in our post last week, high deductibles in health insurance plans can create barriers to necessary care for low- and moderate-income consumers and are particularly concerning in silver plans, which are most… Read more.
05.14.2014 /
Lydia Mitts,
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Insights Blog
This month we celebrate Mother’s Day. And here at Families USA, we can think of no better way to honor moms everywhere than by making sure moms, their children, and their families have access… Read more.
05.12.2014 /
Dee Mahan,
Shannon Attanasio,
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Insights Blog
The Affordable Care Act has made health coverage more affordable for millions of lower- and moderate-income consumers by offering premium tax credits that lower the monthly cost of coverage. However, it takes more than… Read more.
05.06.2014 /
Lydia Mitts,
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Insights Blog
This is the first blog in our series that shares tips and best practices from consumer advocates in several states about how to effectively participate in the health insurance rate review process. The rest… Read more.
04.17.2014 /
Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
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Insights Blog
Federal funding for CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expires in September 2015. At a time when we are expanding health coverage through the Affordable Care Act, we must also ensure that CHIP—which,… Read more.
04.14.2014 /
Shannon Attanasio,
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Insights Blog
UPDATE 4/1/2015: Law protecting against surprise medical bills in New York goes into effect Health care consumers in New York had a great deal to celebrate when, on the last day of the Affordable Care… Read more.
04.10.2014 /
Mark Scherzer,
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Insights Blog
Basic Health Plans are an option under the Affordable Care Act that allows states to provide—as a more affordable alternative to marketplace plans—public health coverage that is the same or similar to Medicaid and… Read more.
04.03.2014 /
Kathleen Stoll,
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Insights Blog
Congressman Paul Ryan released his budget proposal today for Fiscal Year 2015, outlining the funding and policy priorities for House Republicans. As in past years, this budget cuts a large chunk of health care… Read more.
04.01.2014 /
Ben D’Avanzo,
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Insights Blog
Tonight (by midnight) marks the end of the first open enrollment period to get health insurance in the marketplaces. And although this first open enrollment period was a success—more than 6 million people had… Read more.
03.31.2014 /
Insights Blog
On March 5, the Department of the Treasury and IRS issued final rules on how employers report their employees’ health insurance. This was the last of a series of rules needed for implementing the… Read more.
03.28.2014 /
Cheryl Fish-Parcham,
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Insights Blog
Having Medicaid is better than being uninsured—a lot better. But House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s recently released report, War on Poverty: 50 Years Late, claims otherwise. The report, issued by the House Budget Committee,… Read more.
03.25.2014 /
Dee Mahan,
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Insights Blog
42% of HIV-positive women do not get needed treatment and drugs March is National Women’s History Month. As part of this month of honoring women’s strength, resilience, and leadership, March 10 was designated as… Read more.
03.24.2014 /
Kathleen Stoll,
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Insights Blog
Health insurers and web brokers who follow certain federal rules (relating to topics such as protecting consumer information and displaying standardized disclaimers) are allowed to directly enroll consumers in marketplace health coverage and financial assistance; the… Read more.
03.20.2014 /
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Insights Blog
This post was written by guest blogger, Danielle Garrett, Policy Analyst, National Women’s Law Center, dgarrett@nwlc.org. Access to affordable health coverage is important for everyone, but it is a particularly salient issue for women. Women… Read more.
03.17.2014 /
Danielle Garrett,
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Insights Blog
Americans want Congress to improve the Affordable Care Act, not repeal it, according to two recent polls from Kaiser Tracking Health and Garin Hart Yang Research Group. But a special election in Florida this week has political analysts… Read more.
03.14.2014 /
Ron Pollack,
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Insights Blog
As the March 31 deadline approaches for enrolling in health insurance in the marketplace, we would like to address one concern that could be unnecessarily holding back hundreds of thousands of families: fear of… Read more.
03.12.2014 /
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Kevin Oshinskie,
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Insights Blog
