Affordable Care Act provisions requiring states to maintain their eligibility standards and procedures for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program do not impede states’ ... Read more
Health reform took a major step forward this week, as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rules detailing ... Read more
All too often, Americans with private health coverage discover their policy has major holes at exactly the wrong time — when the treatment they need ... Read more
Health insurance exchanges, as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), are intended to make an array of different coverage options available to individuals ... Read more
The House is expected to vote this week on yet another bill to undermine health reform implementation. H.R. 1213 would repeal the law’s grants for states to fully fund their work setting up health insurance marketplaces or “exchanges,” which are scheduled to be up and running by January 1, 2014. As a result, fewer people would get help buying insurance through the exchanges and 500,000 more people would be uninsured in 2015, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis. Read more
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour told the Boston Globe this week that requiring low-income people to travel to a state office for a face-to-face interview in order to qualify for Medicaid — and return each year for another interview to retain their coverage — holds down costs and keeps ineligible people off the program. The reality, as we explained in a 2009 report, is that Mississippi’s requirement keeps many eligible people off of Medicaid and likely raises administrative costs. Read more
The health reform law (the Affordable Care Act) relies primarily on states to establish health insurance exchanges — marketplaces that provide affordable, good-quality coverage ... Read more
The new health reform law includes a number of insurance reforms to aid consumers, several of which will take effect this fall. But plans ... Read more
Millions of Americans will soon be able to receive preventive health care services free of charge under rules the White House issued yesterday to help implement the health reform law. The new rules will likely mean fewer unnecessary deaths from diseases like cancer and diabetes, reduced spending on costly and avoidable illnesses, and a healthier population overall. Read more
