Fact Sheet

Helping People with Medicare

The Affordable Care Act will make health care more affordable for seniors and people with disabilities who rely on Medicare. The law will also change how Medicare pays for health care, making the prog...

Medicaid Must Play a Central Role in Combating Substance Use Disorder

As the largest single source of health insurance and coverage for behavioral health services in the country, Medicaid plays a pivotal role in addressing substance use disorder (SUD). Medicaid covers n...

Why We Need a Health Insurance Exchange

The Affordable Care Act calls for the creation of a competitive health insurance marketplace, called an "exchange," in every state by 2014. Consumers will greatly benefit from these exchanges. This fa...

A Census Undercount Could Damage People’s Health Care

Many factors could prevent numerous communities from fully participating in the 2020 Census. These factors include underfunded Census outreach, a proposed Census question asking about citizenship, and...

States Are Benefitting from Provisions of the Affordable Care Act

This fact sheet explains five provisions of the health care law that are already in effect and helping many Americans. These provisions do the following: allow children to stay on their parents' ...

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...

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...

Preventing Unwarranted Exceptions to the Affordable Care Act’s Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Requirements

Starting in 2011, the Affordable Care Act requires insurers to spend a specific share of premium dollars on medical care, as opposed to administration, marketing, and profits. If insurers don't meet t...

Protecting Health Care Programs from Spending Cuts

Many government leaders have proposed cutting health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to reduce federal spending. However, cutting these programs would hurt both American families and the e...