Fact Sheet
Making Community Health Workers Fundamental: New Research Strengthens the Case for State Policymakers to Include CHWs in Care Delivery Teams
There is considerable evidence that community health workers (CHWs) are an effective and versatile workforce that can improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs for diverse groups and health...
View MoreBackground & Methodology: Repeal Bill’s Impact on Deductibles
How Senate repeal bill changes current law Current law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides premium tax credits (PTCs) to certain people with incomes between 100 and 400 p...
View MoreProven Best Choices
Families USA and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) have produced a new series of consumer guides to help patients and clinicians focus on which tests or treatments to choose when...
View MoreRepublicans’ ACA Replacement Proposals Fall Short of Providing the Protections and Care People Currently Enjoy Under the Affordable Care Act
Despite public disapproval, congressional Republicans are rushing down a dangerous path that could take health coverage away from 30 million people and raise premiums for millions more. To date, they ...
View MoreSenate Health Care Repeal Bill Filled with Earmarks and Payoffs
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...
View MoreDefending Health Care in 2017: What’s at Stake?
If Congress and the Trump Administration are successful in repealing the Affordable Care Act, the consequence will be the endangerment of the health—and lives—of millions of people across America....
View MoreThe American Health Care Act Fails America
Republicans in the House of Representatives moved forward this week to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by introducing the American Health Care Act (AHCA). Rather than build on the ACA’s histori...
View MoreWisconsin Deductibles Skyrocket under the Senate Bill to “Repeal and Replace” the Affordable Care Act
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) complain about high deductibles, but the Senate health care repeal bill would dramatically increase deductibles, rather than lower them. In Wisconsin, 155...
View MoreWest Virginia Deductibles Skyrocket under the Senate Bill to “Repeal and Replace” the Affordable Care Act
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) complain about high deductibles, but the Senate health care repeal bill would dramatically increase deductibles, rather than lower them. In West Virginia,...
View MoreSouth Carolina Deductibles Skyrocket under the Senate Bill to “Repeal and Replace” the Affordable Care Act
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) complain about high deductibles, but the Senate health care repeal bill would dramatically increase deductibles, rather than lower them. In South Carolina...
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