Insights Column

Actually Mr. President, the Affordable Care Act Has Been a Huge Success in Kentucky

In his address to Congress last night, President Donald Trump repeated the falsehood that the Affordable Care Act is “failing” in Kentucky. Trump was quoting Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin who ...

Healthy and Wealthy Benefit under the House Republicans’ Affordable Care Act Repeal Plan

If you have money and don’t get sick, you’ll like the new bill House Republicans released last night that repeals the Affordable Care Act. This bill benefits the wealthy and healthy at the expense...

If Republicans End the Medicaid Expansion: Arizona’s Cautionary Tale

A key way the Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped the United States reach a dramatic drop in the uninsured rate was by expanding the Medicaid program to low and moderate income adults. Despite this suc...

Why the Republican Health Care Bill Won’t Fully Protect People with Pre-Existing Conditions

The Republican bill in the House of Representatives to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), will make it vastly more expensive for anyone who needs health care, particu...

Leading Credit Rating Agencies Warn That Changes to Medicaid Hurt State Budgets

The House Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes way beyond repealing the ACA and includes provisions that would radically restructure all of Medicaid, capping and cutting progr...

Tell Your Senators: Don’t Put Our Health Care Safety Net at Risk

After narrowly passing the House of Representatives, the Republican bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act is now under consideration by the Senate. The American Health Care Act (AHCA), as the...

Video: Gloria’s Family Relies on Medicaid for Life-Saving Health Care

Leslie and his family live in Oregon. They depend on Medicaid to care for their daughter, Gloria. Gloria receives home-based health care services through a special Medicaid waiver made...

Voices of Care: Celeste and Larry

This blog is part of an ongoing series of stories from people across the country who would be negatively affected by the ACA repeal bill currently being negotiated in Congress. If Congress repeal...

The Fight to Stop the Senate Repeal Bill Is Far from Over

By now you’ve heard that the Senate will not be voting this week on the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), their heartless plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), decimate Medicaid, and ...

Senate Repeal Plan Could Hurt States’ Credit Ratings

While states are balancing their budgets and beginning a new fiscal year on July 1, credit rating agencies are warning that the new health care repeal plan could put a dent in future credit ratings fo...