Musk doesn’t seem to care about what the president has to say.| The New Republic
In a new column, Dr. Drew Altman, KFF’s President and CEO, discusses the limits of polling on policy, and what we have learned over more than 30 years of polling about how giving people more information and arraying tradeoffs can change opinion, including on the health policy changes and funding cuts in the current reconciliation bill.| KFF
Nine states have state-funded health insurance subsidy programs that make coverage even more affordable than it would be with federal subsidies alone.| healthinsurance.org
In his latest column, President and CEO Drew Altman shows how proposals contained in the House reconciliation bill could result in a one-third reduction in ACA Marketplace enrollment. “While all eyes are on the big Medicaid cuts being proposed in the House,” he writes, “significant changes are also being proposed that together would dramatically reduce enrollment in the ACA Marketplaces.”| From Drew Altman Archive | KFF
In his latest column, president and CEO Drew Altman discusses why debate about extending the ACA enhanced tax credits set to expire this year has been slow to develop, and why it could matter to Republicans politically if the tax credits are not extended.| From Drew Altman Archive | KFF
This review aims to advise the UK Government – and other stakeholders – on whether the regime is working as intended, so that they can consider if any improvements should be made.| Competition and Markets Authority
Obamacare's annual open enrollment runs until January 15 in most states. Here's why you might want to enroll by December 15 anyway.| healthinsurance.org
Tobias Leenaert is the author of How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach, a highly regarded book offering practical strategies for vegan advocacy.| vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Our ACA health insurance subsidy calculator estimates your premium subsidy based on your income, age and household size.| healthinsurance.org
While the Affordable Care Act's premium subsidies help pay the cost of the health insurance itself, cost-sharing subsidies help to reduce out-of-pocket spending for eligible enrollees when they select Silver plans. The Trump administration eliminated federal funding for cost-sharing reductions, but the benefits are still available to eligible enrollees. And because the cost of cost-sharing reductions has been added to premiums, premium subsidies are much larger than they were prior to 2018.| healthinsurance.org
Nathan Wilkes is a Colorado father who came face-to-face with the realities of lifetime maximum benefits on health insurance policies before the ACA eliminated them. His family exhausted their benefits on a private policy as well as CoverColorado, the state's high risk pool. Both policies had $1 million lifetime maximums, and Nathan's son Thomas has severe hemophilia that can cost that much in a year.| healthinsurance.org
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that during the first six months of 2024, developers and power plant operators increased…| IER
The ACA's subsidy cliff has been temporarily eliminated (through 2025), saving some health insurance buyers thousands of dollars per year.| healthinsurance.org