The first of numerous federal policies that reverse recent coverage gains under the the Affordable Care Act are scheduled to go into effect on August 25, but two lawsuits have been filed to block them. CHIR's Sabrina Corlette reviews the imminent policy changes, their impact, and the legal challenges to watch.| CHIRblog
On June 18, Tradeoffs moderated an online event with economists and doctors examining why this legislation could cost so many people their health coverage — or even their lives. The post Unpacking the Health Impacts of Republicans’ ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ appeared first on Tradeoffs.| Tradeoffs
(The Epoch Times)—The Supreme Court on April 21 will hear a case about the constitutionality of a federal panel that issues mandates requiring insurers to cover preventive medical services without cost to patients. In Kennedy v. Braidwood Management Inc., the justices will consider the constitutionality of a federal law that allowed the U.S. Preventive Services […]| based underground
For women in the US, health insurance has come a very long way in the last decade, thanks in large part to the dramatic improvements and consumer protections brought about by Obamacare. This is particularly true in the individual market, where previous reforms and mandates had rarely applied.| healthinsurance.org
Signups for Obamacare on Minnesota’s official health insurance marketplace, MNsure, hit a record 167,163 people for coverage in 2025.| Mshale
The deadline to sign up for Obamacare for coverage in 2025 is January 15. Coverage will begin on February 1.| Mshale
As of the 2025 plan year, there will be 20 fully state-run health insurance marketplaces (SBMs), three state-based marketplaces that use the federal platform (SBM-FP), and 28 fully federally run marketplaces. Three of the SBMs had an SBM-FP model in 2021, but transitioned to their own enrollment platforms as of the 2022 plan year. Virginia joined them in the fall of 2023, and Georgia will also be running its own exchange platform by the fall of 2024. Illinois has enacted legislation to creat...| healthinsurance.org
Outside of the ACA's open enrollment period, you can only sign up for ACA-compliant health coverage if you qualify for a special enrollment period.| healthinsurance.org
Many of us have a bad habit of talking about and thinking about risk in entirely the wrong way. There's no perfectly safe way to go through life, and that's true with our money and true with everything else, too. There's rarely a safe option and a risky option, but instead different options with different risks. This is the story of something terrible that drove that point home for me and Mark this year.| Our Next Life by Tanja Hester, author of Work Optional and Wallet Activism
Federal penalties for being uninsured no longer apply since 2019, but some states are implementing their own coverage mandates. Find more info here.| healthinsurance.org
U.S. government data shows Kansas and other states not expanding Medicaid have much lower costs.| The Sentinel
The new home of Brian McGlinchey’s independent journalism is Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey, a Substack newsletter. →→ Visit Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey: Invigoratingly unorthodox perspectives for intellectually honest readers My previous commentary, “Why Merely Repealing Obamacare Isn’t Enough,” was written in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s Obamacare verdict. Its aspirational title reflected my […]| LibertyMcG