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Insights Column
09.27.2016
It’s been only two months since the Louisiana Medicaid expansion—dubbed Healthy Louisiana—went into effect, and already Louisianans are reaping the benefits. New data show that Medicaid expansion has helped over 305,000 Bayou State residents…
Insights Column
10.24.2016
A new study about emergency room use in Oregon is fueling the debate about whether expanding Medicaid as made possible under the Affordable Care Act leads to high emergency room use. To understand what…
Insights Column
11.04.2016
Join Families USA for a post-election webinar to discuss what the election results mean for health advocacy priorities in 2017 and beyond. Speakers will include: Ron Pollack, Executive Director; Shannon Attanasio, Government Affairs Director; Patrick Willard, Campaigns, Outreach, and…
Insights Column
12.20.2016
If Republicans in Congress and President-elect Trump are successful in repealing the Affordable Care Act early next year as they have pledged, what happens to Medicaid, which insures one in five Americans and one…
Insights Column
01.12.2017
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. This would…
Insights Column
03.01.2017
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 said last weekend that coverage wasn’t…
Insights Column
03.07.2017
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…
Insights Column
03.15.2017
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 success, the…
Insights Column
03.20.2017
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, particularly those…
Insights Column
03.22.2017
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 program funding, in addition…