2014

Reforming the Way Health Care Is Delivered Can Reduce Health Care Disparities

Although the Affordable Care Act now offers individuals greatly expanded access to health coverage, simply having an insurance card does not guarantee access to high-quality health care. In fact, for ...

Improving Private Health Insurance Networks for Communities of Color

Having health insurance is a key step to obtaining health care. But insurance alone does not guarantee that consumers will have meaningful access to care. People of color, in particular, may continue ...

Medicaid Expansion and Health Disparities: African Americans

n the states that have chosen not to expand their Medicaid program, there are hundreds of thousands of uninsured, low-income African Americans who are lagging behind on key measures of access to healt...

Checklist for a Health Plan Provider Network that Adequately Serves Diverse Consumers

People of color continue to experience disparities in health care and health outcomes. Even when they are insured, minority populations may continue to face barriers to obtaining good health care. On...

Trending: Why 2 Million Inconsistencies in ACA Applications are Not a Big Deal

Recently media outlets have reported that the government is having trouble verifying the income information of as many as 2 million people enrolled in health coverage through the Aff...

Health Security for Young Adults as They Build for the Future

The flexibility and affordability of new health plans under the Affordable Care Act has led to an increased number of young adults buying health coverage. Though the media often criticize Millennia...

Free or Subsidized Health Coverage Available to Most Uninsured African Americans through Affordable Care Act

Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that gave more than 4 million uninsured African Americans one more ...

Families USA’s 2014 Health Action Conference Will Discuss How to Improve Marketplaces for Consumers

Throughout the past six months, the health care advocacy community has focused on outreach and enrollment in the new health insurance marketplaces. This work will continue, but with the New Year, we w...

The ACA’s Medical Loss Ratio requirement contributed to slowed growth in health care spending

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the latest data from the National Health Expenditure Accounts, which show the portion of our economy that was devoted to healt...

Health Action 2014: Advancing the Fight for Health Equity

Health advocates share the hope that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the racial and ethnic health disparities that remain realities in today’s health care system. These disparities transcend age...