Fact Sheet
Trump Administration ‘Public Charge’ Rule Threatens Health Care for Immigrant Families, Including U.S. Citizen Children
Last week, the Washington Post published a leaked draft of a proposed regulation to drastically change requirements for certain immigrants to enter the United States and/or become permanent resident...
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How High Prescription Drug Costs Harm Families
Drug companies consistently set high prices, which forces families to make impossible choices between their health care and other basic needs. Drug companies set exorbitant prices by design to maximiz...
View MoreTrump Administration Proposal Redefines Poverty to Raise Health Care Costs for Middle-Class Families
For the second time in less than a month, the Trump administration has proposed obscure bureaucratic formula changes that will raise health care costs for 8.2 million people who buy private insurance ...
View MoreAffordability 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...
View MoreMaryland’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...
View MoreMaryland’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 ...
View MoreCBO 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...
View MoreLatino 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...
View MoreGraham-Cassidy Proposal: Gigantic Block Grants and Huge Health Care Cuts
Update 9/21: View our explainer on Graham-Cassidy. Senators Graham (R-SC) and Cassidy (R-LA) have proposed a gigantic new block grant that would dramatically cut funding both for Medicaid expansion ...
View MoreThe Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a vital part of our nation’s health care system, specifically designed to provide coverage for children of families with low-to-modest incomes. Me...
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