By Joe Touschner [For more up-to-date information on figuring out premium tax credits, visit Consumer Reports health tax credit tool or state specific brochures. Kaiser Family Foundation has also updated its subsidy calculator.] Insurers have been filing small group and non-group rates in several states recently, leading to claims and counter-claims about whether the ACA […]
By Julie Silas, Consumers Union Over the past two years, like many of you, I have been expending my energy on fine tuning important policy positions that will impact millions of people (hello, please, no more proposed regulations!). While I have tried to wade into the practical, concrete functionality that will be essential for those […]
Now that both state-based and the federally-facilitated marketplaces are well on their way to recruiting and selecting navigators, attention turns to training and support. Effective training is critical to ensuring that the needs of consumers, particularly low-income, hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations, are met. But training is only one element of creating and supporting a high-functioning […]
By JoAnn Volk, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms The ACA’s ban on using health status to set health insurance premiums is a key consumer protection in the new law and will bring relief to tens of millions of Americans who face discrimination in today’s health insurance market. Proponents argued the ban would make […]
Even as states across the country continue to evaluate their options for implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), almost all states are moving to take advantage of significant federal funding to modernize their Medicaid information technology (IT) infrastructures in response to the new law. The decisions being made now and in the months ahead will […]
By Martha Heberlein In case you missed it, it was a beautiful day in Washington on Friday and some exciting news from CMS made the day all the brighter – a State Health Official letter they released provides states with some tools to enroll eligible folks more efficiently. Understanding that states will be facing the […]
