2013

Enroll America Releases New Interactive Maps Showing the Number of People Lacking Health Insurance at a Local Level

New health coverage options under the Affordable Care Act promise to help millions of uninsured Americans. Currently, 48.6 million Americans are uninsured. But under the Affordable Care Act, 25.7 m...

New Premium Tax Credits: A Health Care Game Changer

This blog was originally posted on HuffingtonPost.com Obamacare was designed to give peace of mind to hard-working American families. And starting in January, it will do just that for millions of ...

Children Need Exchange Coverage Too

This post was originally from Georgetown Center for Children and Families' Say Ahhh! blog By Maureen Hensley-Quinn, National Academy for State Health Policy As state and federal government off...

Why the DC Cancer Consortium Opposes “Tobacco Rating”

This post is a guest blog by Staurt Berlow, Public Policy Manager, at The DC Cancer Consortium. The DC Cancer Consortium and our 75 organizational members are committed to reducing the toll of canc...

New Results from National Health Insurance Survey Show How Many Americans Will Benefit from the Affordable Care Act

How the Law Has Already Helped More young adults have coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act. As of September 2010, young adults have been able to stay on their parents’ health insurance ...

Expanding Medicaid Using Premium Assistance, or the “Private Option,” to Buy Health Insurance

This brief explains the option of using federal funds to expand Medicaid by purchasing health insurance for Medicaid enrollees in the state marketplaces. The practice is called "premium assistance....

Why the Affordable Care Act Will Not Cause Employers to Drop Health Coverage

Opponents of the Affordable Care Act claim that the law will lead employers to drop employee health coverage, forcing workers to obtain coverage on their own. A recent fact sheet by Families USA ref...

The New and Enhanced Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards Will Help Eliminate Disparities in Health and Health Care

This April, the Office of Minority Health at the Department of Health and Human Services released the enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Heal...

Early HIV Detection Saves Lives. Get Tested Now!

More than 10 years ago, a very close loved one told me that he was HIV positive. As you can imagine, it was shocking and devastating news. Shocking, because I never thought that HIV (Human Immunodefic...

HHS Announces that the Medical Loss Ratio Provision Saved Health Care Consumers $4 Billion in 2012

On Thursday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that, thanks to the Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio (MLR) provision, 77.8 million Americans paid $3.4 billion less ...