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This week the Iowa Insurance Division formally filed an ACA innovation waiver request to radically remake the state's individual marke...

Senator Brian Schatz's proposal to allow any American to buy into Medicaid is frustratingly vague: we don't know the plan design ...

The CBO report on the effects of the federal government ceasing reimbursement of insurers for the Cost Sharing Reduction subsidies they ar...

A while back, I anticipated that Republicans would demand a steep price for passing legislation that would guarantee federal funding for t...

In August 2015, Urban Institute healthcare scholars Linda Blumberg and John Holahan acknowledged that ACA marketplace subsidies were too sk...

If the current glimmers of bipartisanship in healthcare legislation take on any sustained shine, the primary agenda for Democrats is obviou...

A question hath arisen on Twitter: if federal Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) reimbursements to insurers are cut off, either by Trump adminis...

Covered California, the golden state's ACA marketplace, released preliminary health plan rates for 2018 today. In a marketplace suppo...

In an illuminating string about what she's learned from ACA enrollees, Sarah Kliff highlights a point that's come sharply into fo...

Two weeks ago, I took on the argument of various BCRA proponents that most of the 22 million people forecast by CBO to lose insurance cove...

Imagine for a moment that Republicans fail to pass legislation repealing the ACA -- leaving the ACA marketplace intact as a matter of law, ...

As Republicans flail away at the BCRA, Democrats' first murmurs about bipartisan legislation to stabilize the ACA marketplace have been...

In late June, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), released a financial service...

There's news today -- good news -- of Democrats in both the House and Senate acknowledging flaws in the ACA and proposing their own fix...

Bloomberg reporter Steve Dennis flags a Republican talking point in favor of their latest travesty of a 'healthcare" bill that we...

If I post this, I'll have an easier time finding it myself...an index of fact/stat sources for our current healthcare wars as well as f...

The cut to federal Medicaid spending that CBO estimates would result from the BCRA -- $750 billion over ten years -- superficially recalls...

For ACA marketplace enrollees with incomes under 200% FPL -- over half of all enrollees -- benchmark silver plans have an average actuarial...

When House Republicans sued the Obama administration in 2014 to stop federal payments to health insurers for Cost Sharing Reduction subsidi...

The Senate version of the AHCA, the Orwellianly named Better Care Reconciliation Act , does even more fundamental damage to the U.S. health...