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Professor, Mentor, Researcher, and Data Pioneer: Celebrating Lynn Blewett’s Retirement
I first met Lynn Blewett as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where her courses on the U.S. health care system fundamentally shaped how I understand policy and evidence. What struck me most was her ability to translate complex health systems into their human dimensions and to remind us…
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Early Signals Suggest a Second Year of Double-Digit Marketplace Premium Increases
It’s the start of rate review season for state insurance departments. Although most proposed premium rates for 2027 Marketplace coverage are not due to federal regulators until mid-July and will not be public until the end of July, some state regulators require insurers to submit proposed rate filings in May or June and release varying levels of…
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Emerging State Data Paint a Bleak Picture of 2026 Marketplace Enrollment
Congress’s failure to extend premium tax credit enhancements led to unprecedented net premium increases in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces in 2026. As a result, fewer people signed up for coverage during the 2026 open enrollment period, and many others “bought down” to less expensive plans that carry higher out-of-pocket costs. However, to more fully…
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Ten New States Join the CCBHC Medicaid Demonstration, H.R. 1 Puts Its Success at Risk
As readers of the blog know, the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model has been one of the rare bright spots in more recent federal behavioral health policy and one with deep bipartisan roots. As a reminder, CCBHCs are community-based behavioral health providers that meet federal certification criteria. While some operate independently, the CCBHC…
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Young Children’s Uninsurance is On the Rise – What Can Be Done to Protect Child Health?
Earlier this month, we released an analysis of uninsurance trends that found that young children were becoming uninsured at a faster rate than their school-aged peers. The trend is alarming and predates the massive declines we are seeing in child Medicaid enrollment since President Trump took office and before H.R. 1 Medicaid cuts and policy…