Insights Column

Health Insurance Marketplace Experts: Savvier Consumers Prioritizing Health Care Needs over Premiums

Update: Our December 17 teleconference with officials from state-based marketplaces in California, Kentucky, New York, and Washington provided further insight into the progress of this second open e...

Best of 2014: Rate Review, Network Adequacy, and High-Deductible Health Plans

We asked our policy experts to share their picks for 2014’s must-read—or, in some cases, must-see—articles, reports, videos, and more. See more “best of” lists from our teams working on hea...

20 Picks from 2014 That Will Matter in 2015: Our Health Policy Experts’ Reading List

Last month, we asked our health policy experts to discuss the 2014 must-reads that will be relevant for the health care challenges that we face in 2015 (read the series). We compiled that series into ...

Congress to Challenge American Workers’ Health Insurance—Changing the Definition of a Full-time Worker and Other Proposals

As the 114th Congress convened this week, conservatives in the House of Representatives acted quickly to take up a Republican bill that could weaken the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This bill is the f...

Behind the Full-Time Worker Debate: An Attack on Employer-Based Health Coverage

The first significant challenge to the Affordable Care Act in the new Congress—redefining a full-time worker from 30 to 40 hours a week—is headed to the Senate, where it has limited bipartisan su...

A Call to Action: Health Reform 2.0

Today, Families USA issues a call to action in support of Health Reform 2.0 – a series of 19 specific proposals to improve health care for everyone in our nation. In the years ahead, we will build...

Welcome to Day 1 of Health Action!

Health Action 2015 Thursday, January 22, 2015 5:00 p.m.—Marketplace Enrollment Update Kevin Counihan, Director and Marketplace Chief Executive Officer, Center for Consumer Information and Insur...

Welcome to Day 2 of Health Action!

Health Action 2015 Friday, January 23, 2015 5:30 p.m.—Competing Visions for the Future of Health Care Joseph Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enter...

Medicaid: A Vital Health Coverage Program

Conservative lawmakers opposed to the federal Medicaid program would like to dramatically change its structure (Speaker Ryan and other House Republicans have proposed major changes). Here's a round...

Medicaid Caps Stick It to States with Smaller Medicaid Budgets

More than $18,000 to spend on Medicaid for each person in Alaska; Nevada gets just over $4,000. Does that sound fair? Well, that’s the funding formula in the GOP health care repeal plan. States that...