- November 18, 2025
Turning Lemons Into Lemonade: State Applications Underscore the Limitations of OBBBA’s Rural Health Transformation Program
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that all 50 states have applied for…
- November 18, 2025
The Federal Government is Back Open, With No Relief for Individuals With Marketplace Coverage
It’s over. After 43 days, the longest government shutdown in history has come to an end with a plan…
- October 31, 2025
Buyers Beware: What Marketplace Shoppers Need to Know About Junk Insurance This Year
What would you do if your health insurance bill doubled overnight?Is this a mistake? I can’t pay this much!How…
- October 15, 2025
California’s New Law Will Hold Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans Accountable and Ensure Beneficiaries Can Access Care
***Co-Authored by Abigail Coursolle, NHeLP and Whitney Francis, Western Center on Law and PovertyThis week, Governor Newsom signed into…
- October 9, 2025
Congress Must Reject The Anti-Abortion Revisionist History on ACA Abortion Coverage
Never ones to let a crisis go to waste, anti-abortion advocates are trying to hijack the ongoing negotiations over…
- October 1, 2025
California takes bold action to protect access to preventive services
Recognizing that prevention and early detection of diseases and conditions vastly improve health outcomes, the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
- September 30, 2025
RFK Jr.’s new regime puts vaccine coverage for low-income children in jeopardy (Updated)
Children from low-income families, those without health insurance or who are under-insured, as well as Native American children, have…
- September 29, 2025
OBBBA is Now Law, But the Fight is Not Over: Utilizing Existing State Resources to Protect SRH Coverage
The enactment of this year’s budget reconciliation law, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Act” (OBBBA), is already destabilizing the…
- September 24, 2025
New Medicaid Work Requirements: How Managed Care Plans Can Help
Beginning January 1, 2027, OBBBA requires adults covered under the Medicaid expansion population to participate in mandatory work activities…
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