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Affordable Care Act
Proposed rule would bring sweeping changes to Marketplace enrollment, eligibility
March 13, 2025 – A proposed federal rule issued this week would, if finalized, bring wide-ranging changes for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance…
Who needs the ACA marketplace? About 45 million Americans since its 2014 launch.
October 7, 2020 – As many as 50 million Americans have enrolled in ACA plans since 2014. The debate about protections for those with pre-existing conditions…
The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill: a cheat sheet
May 26, 2017 – The Senate is working on its own version of repeal-and-replace legislation. Here's what happens next ... and how you can…
Affordable Care Act supporters gird for battle
February 20, 2017 – We're at one of those moments right now for millions of American families. It's a moment to tell the truth to the American public. Get past…
Obamacare: A Stepping Stone?
November 9, 2015 – The following guest post is from Simon F. Haeder, the winner of healthinsurance.org's 2014 Health Wonk Scholarship. Haeder is a Ph.D.…
Justices Kennedy, Roberts are ‘votes in play’
March 4, 2015 – This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the lawsuit that claims that the Affordable Care Act only allows…
Could Obamacare save 24,000 lives a year?
May 5, 2014 – This back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that ACA will prevent something like 24,000 deaths every year. That’s almost the number of…
Reports of ACA demise: greatly exaggerated
April 8, 2014 – For this edition of Curbside Consult, I Skyped with Dr. Jonathan Gruber, who is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts…
ACA’s surprisingly successful exchanges
March 12, 2014 – If North Carolina were pulling up the enrollment rear, it probably wouldn't surprise anyone. The state has a Republican Governor and…
‘Bailout?’ ‘Unprecedented?’ Honestly?
January 29, 2014 – "What [ACA critics] don't tell you is that while $25 billion is a lot of money, it is pocket change compared to the enormous amount of…
Anatomy of an Obamacare ‘horror story’
January 3, 2014 – "A lack of fact checkers does not explain why the newspaper ignored the news that one of its 'victims' had found good coverage. No editor's…
2014: A very good year for health coverage
December 31, 2013 – Many of the newly insured are among the millions who have been unable to afford coverage in the past or have not been able to buy it at any…