Insights Column

Protect Yourself and Your Family: Know Your Job-Based Insurance Rights

As a young adult just entering the workforce I'm lucky that my father's job offered health insurance, and that he was smart enough to take advantage of it and protect himself and his family. If not, I...

Value You Can See

We all want value for the dollar when we make a big purchase. Especially when we buy something expensive, we want to know that we're getting a high-quality product that makes a hit to the bank account...

Celebrate Black History Month and Fight for Health Equity

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As African American History Month comes to a close, we reflect on Dr. Kin...

The Affordable Care Act Saved My Future

It only took one night for my financial standing to turn upside down. As a recent college graduate and soon-to-be graduate student, money is scarce and I worry about every dollar I spend. During colle...

Mary Brown Doesn’t Have Unpaid Broccoli Bills

It's hard to miss the irony: Mary Brown, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case challenging the health care law, who claimed in court she "doesn't have insurance" and "doesn't want to pay for ...

What’s at Stake – No, Who’s at Stake in the Great Supreme Court Case?

This blog is cross-posted from the National Council of La Raza. By: Jennifer Ng'andu, Deputy Director, Health Policy Project, National Council of La Raza It's probably the hottest seat in Washing...

Celebrate Two Years of Health Care Protections! Join our Tweet Storm this Friday!

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, people across the country will never again have to worry about being denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition, being dropped from coverage because ...

The High Cost of Gender Rating

What could explain a health insurance company charging one 25-year-old nearly double what another pays for the same coverage? No, it's not a pre-existing condition or chronic illness. It's gender....

Join us for a Spanish Language Twitter Chat

This blog is cross-posted from the Department of Health and Human Services. By Mayra Alvarez, HHS Director of Public Health Policy Posted April 06, 2012 April is National Minority Health Month...

Obamacare Would Make Insurance Companies Give Consumers Their $2 billion Back

A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund predicts that, if the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of the Affordable Care Act had gone into effect in 2010, consumers would have gotten $2 billion ba...