by Jordana Choucair | Jan 24, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to force the reinstatement of the state’s Medicaid waiver. The Trump administration approved the plan, which would have imposed work requirements and premiums. Last month, HHS informed...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 21, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Supreme Court rejected the latest attempt to block the six-week abortion ban in Texas. Abortion providers had asked the Supreme Court to send the case back to a federal district court, where the judge presiding over their challenge had previously blocked the Texas...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 18, 2022 | Access & Coverage
A divided federal appeals court panel rejected a request from Texas abortion clinics to send their legal challenge back to the trial court judge who previously blocked the measure. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit instead directed the case to the Texas...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 11, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Enrollment in ACA plans reached 13.8 million for 2022, according to CMS, representing a 20 percent uptick from a comparable period last year ahead of the sign-up deadline this weekend. CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said early data indicates that the largest...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 23, 2021 | Access & Coverage
The Biden administration announced that, thus far, a record 13.6 million people have enrolled in health coverage for 2022 on the ACA marketplaces. The previous high was 12.7 million in 2016. Health officials cited increased subsidies and outreach for the increase in...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 6, 2021 | Access & Coverage
A new study indicates that 23.7 million children lacked adequate and continuous insurance coverage from 2016 to 2019. During the three-year period, the number of underinsured children grew by 2.4 million. Thirty-five percent of families whose children had complex...
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