2012

What’s Missing from the Court Coverage and What to Do about It

There's been no shortage of analysis about the Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. A lot of it has focused on the politics and tea-leaf reading: How will the J...

House Republicans Continue to Target Health Care for Cuts

Sadly, Republicans continue to use the federal deficit as an excuse to gut the nation's health care safety net. We've already looked at the extreme proposals in the House Budgetand at last week's at...

GOP Would Have Us Choose: Student Aid or Health Care for Families

What do the national smoking cessation hotline, fresh vegetables for low-income urban neighborhoods, vaccinations for kids without insurance, and new residency positions for badly needed primary care ...

The Affordable Care Act gives you health care or your money back!

The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies will send $1.3 billion dollars in rebates to consumers and small and large businesses this ...

Counting the Cost: Women’s Health Without Obamacare

As we await the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act coming in June, Families USA and other organizations are tallying up the benefits the law has provided so far-and the potential costs ...

Do These Cuts Reflect Your Priorities?

The House is expected to vote today on a Republican proposal to slash health care spending for low-income and middle-class families. Unfortunately, cutting services for America's families is becoming ...

Packard Releases New Report on Impact of Children’s Health Care Advocacy

This blog is cross-posted from Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog. By, Gene Lewit and Lian Wong, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Posted May 15, 2012 Those of you who are regular ...

What could you have done with an extra $280 a year?

In 2009, 11 million Americans bought their own health insurance. If the Affordable Care Act had been fully implemented then, they would have spent less on their care. According to a new study, provi...

Would your insurance make the grade?

It's the end of the school year, and students across the country are getting their report cards. But term papers and final exams aren't the only things being graded. In a recent study published in H...

I Am the Heart of ObamaCare, and So Are You!

During the extensive coverage of the Supreme Court hearings on the Affordable Care Act, the health reform law, ObamaCare, or whatever you want to call it, many attempted to pin down what they thought ...