2017

Final Open Enrollment Numbers Show Affordable Care Act Is Delivering Coverage People Want

Today, we saw the final enrollment numbers for the fourth open enrollment period. They build on earlier reports showing a high demand for coverage through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces (exch...

Trump Administration Hears Large Outcry from Consumers Opposing Finalized Harmful Policies

In mid-April, the Trump Administration finalized policies that will harm consumers who buy health insurance through the marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These policy changes will ...

House v. Price Case Threatens Health Care for Millions

Update (5/22/2017, 4:30pm): The Trump administration today asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in DC for a 90-day hold before the administration announces whether it will continue a cost-sharing program ...

Songs to Save Health Care

As Republicans in Congress continue their quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid for millions, one of our most important roles as health care advocates and activists is to stay motiv...

Trump’s Threats to Stop Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Will Hurt Families

Coming off the Senate failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last week, President Trump has threatened an immediate cutoff of payments to insurance companies that support the reductions in th...

Mobilize Now To Stop Senate from Stripping Millions of Health Coverage

Senate Republicans are on course to fast-track the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to bring the Republican health care bill to a vote a...

The ACA’s Cost-Sharing Reductions: Protecting Consumers from High Out-of-Pocket Health Costs

The Trump administration announced it will stop making cost sharing reduction payments. Without these payments, a number of insurers have said they will have to leave marketplaces or raise their rat...

The House Republicans’ Health Care Outline Would Eviscerate Medicaid

House Republican leadership has just released their plan for health care "reform." The plan includes sweeping changes to Medicaid that would end the Medicaid expansion's extra payments to states, ef...

In Their Own Words: Republican Governors Support Medicaid Expansion

If Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, it will also eliminate one of the law’s most popular and successful elements: the expansion of Medicaid to cover people with low and moderate incomes. Th...

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 ...