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What the ACA Marketplaces Do for Your State
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...
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House Budget Bill and Tax Credit Expiration Will Make It Harder to Get and Afford Marketplace Health Plans
If the bill becomes law and Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits — which were passed during the pandemic and ...
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How the U.S. Can Better Understand — and Prevent — Maternal Deaths Related to Substance Use
Some state committees classify overdose or substance use deaths as “pregnancy-associated but not related” and thus do not report on these deaths. Other states do report on these cases and document ...
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How Community Health Centers Can Partner with Organizations to Adopt Value-Based Care
As health care moves toward value-based models, community health centers must adapt to remain sustainable while staying true ...
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Status of Women’s Health: 100 Days into the Trump Administration
The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the ...
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Federal Cuts to Medicaid Could End Medicaid Expansion and Affect Hospitals in Nearly Every State
The U.S. Congress is considering deep cuts to federal Medicaid spending, as much as $880 billion over 10 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such cuts would represent a 12 percent ...
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Proposed Rule Will Make Consumers Pay More for Health Insurance and Care in the ACA Marketplaces
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces are providing affordable health insurance plans to a record 24 million Americans in a price-competitive market. Working-class people have enjoyed lower ...
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How Private Equity Deals Are Reshaping Your Health Care
When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to those health care institutions, the patients they ...
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The Cost of Eliminating the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
To help people afford plans sold in the health insurance marketplaces, the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also sometimes called Obamacare) provides low- and middle-income individuals with premium tax ...
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Improving Medicare–Medicaid Integration: Priorities of Dual-Eligible Adults Under Age 65
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Federal and state legislative and ...
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U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Provisional data show that drug ...
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How Undoing the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Americans’ Health Care
Pending the outcome of the 2024 presidential and congressional elections, the fate of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, may hang in the balance. Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has a ...