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October 31, 2025
Buyers Beware: What Marketplace Shoppers Need to Know About Junk Insurance This Year
Geraldine Doetzer Uncategorized
What would you do if your health insurance bill doubled overnight?Is this a mistake? I can’t pay this much!How bad would it be to just drop my plan? Isn’t there anything cheaper out there? These are no longer hypothetical questions for millions of people shopping for Marketplace coverage. On…
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October 15, 2025
A $50 Billion Band-Aid?: States Considering Rural Health Funding Should Proceed With Caution
Geraldine Doetzer Fact Sheet
Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its one-time application for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) Fund. Advocates should be aware of RHTP’s significant limitations in the context of historic cuts to Medicaid under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and urge their states to…
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September 17, 2025
Medicaid Financing after OBBBA: State Directed Payments and Provider Taxes
Geraldine Doetzer Issue Brief
The so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) makes changes to complex but crucial Medicaid financing mechanisms that are likely to force states to reduce provider payments and limit benefits. This issue brief provides an overview of state directed payments and provider taxes and explains how they interact; how…
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September 15, 2025
Republicans in Congress Are Still At War With the ACA – This Time, They May Be Winning
Geraldine Doetzer Uncategorized
The White House and Republicans in Congress have doubled down on their 15-year fight to destroy the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) and regulations pushed out by the Trump Administration this spring will already make health insurance on the individual market more…
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August 14, 2025
Webinar: What We Know and What Happens Next – OBBBA Overview and Implementation Timeline
Geraldine Doetzer, Christina Piecora, Andy DiAntonio, and Wayne Turner Webinar
The reconciliation package passed by Congressional Republicans and signed into law in July will have major adverse effects on access to care for all people in the U. S., particularly the millions who receive coverage through Medicaid or ACA Marketplace plans. In this webinar kicking off NHeLP’s webinar series…
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August 13, 2025
The Marketplace Final Rule Rolls Back Access to Marketplace Coverage and Affordability
Geraldine Doetzer, Alicia Emanuel, Shandra Hartly, Héctor Hernández-Delgado, and Wayne Turner Issue Brief
On June 20, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a marketplace rule, hereinafter referred to as the Marketplace Final Rule, that restricts access to marketplace coverage and affordability programs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This issue brief discusses the key eligibility, enrollment and affordability…
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Buyers Beware: What Marketplace Shoppers Need to Know About Junk Insurance This Year

A $50 Billion Band-Aid?: States Considering Rural Health Funding Should Proceed With Caution

Medicaid Financing after OBBBA: State Directed Payments and Provider Taxes

Republicans in Congress Are Still At War With the ACA – This Time, They May Be Winning

Webinar: What We Know and What Happens Next – OBBBA Overview and Implementation Timeline

The Marketplace Final Rule Rolls Back Access to Marketplace Coverage and Affordability