Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

Mothers with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level (“FPL”) in states which have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) are eligible to remain covered by Medicaid and those with incomes above 138% FPL may be eligible to qualify for subsidized coverage through the ACA marketplace. 31, 2022). [2] 2] Emily E.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Among these people, healthcare trust fell by 20 percentage points between 2017 and 2018, a “crash” (Edelman’s descriptor) from 75 percent to 55%. Finally, the pharma industry ranked fifth of five segments, with only 38% of Americans trusting pharma companies, dropped by a whopping 13 percentage points over 2017.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

2017 – Employees Continue to Pick Up More Health Insurance Costs, Even As Their Growth Slows. Here are the past four years’ links for historical context and your reading pleasure… 2019 – “It’s the Deductible, Stupid” – Health Premiums Reach $20,576 for a Family.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Healthcare facilities receive billions of dollars in federal and state funding through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and other programs. A 2017 report showed several of the largest penalties have been imposed on small- to medium-sized healthcare organizations, including United Medical Instruments Inc.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2018

Upwell Health surveyed 5,255 people with diabetes online in 2017. The total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes in 2017 is $327 billion, including $237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity, the American Diabetes Association calculates.

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JULY 21, 2019

The HSA line chart shows that the share of employees contributing to their HSA has fallen from a high of 50% in 2017 to 38% in 2019. Four in ten insured workers contributed to a health savings account (HSA( associated with their HDHP.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Experian surveyed 1,000 consumers in September 2017 for this study. Related to that, 90% of patients “vastly underestimated” the costs associated with major medical procedures, in Experian’s words.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

million people in 2017. Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 By September 2020, about 36 million people in the U.S.

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CMS.gov

OCTOBER 22, 2018

After the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) regulations took effect, we have witnessed a serious deterioration of the individual market across the country because of skyrocketing costs and the withdrawal of insurance plans. As the ACA regulations took effect, choice plummeted and premiums soared.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. In 2017, 46.9% did so in 2017. Offer rates among other size firms stayed relatively flat or slightly declined between 2016 and 2017. By 2017, the second chart (Figure 6 from the report) shows unemployment at a low point of 4.1%

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Ask yourself why proponents of ‘Medicare for All’ are advocating such a radical reform of health care just five years after the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as Obamacare. It is certainly not because the ACA has worked. After the ACA took effect, premiums skyrocketed and choice dwindled.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

In 2017, most workers adapted their use of health care services based on cost increases. The survey was conducted in June 2017 among 1,518 U.S. workers between 21 and 64 years of age. workers aren’t just changing their healthcare utilization choices based on increasing costs. 34% have increased credit card debt.

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MAY 14, 2018

The 50 ways to reform prescription drug pricing include: Increasing competition via promoting innovation and competition and developing proposals to drop Medicaid and ACA programs from raising drug prices in the private market.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

Protecting pre-existing conditions in health insurance outranks lowering the price of prescription drugs and repealing the ACA, voters say. On a party-identification basis, this sentiment is shared across a majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans, the third chart illustrates.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

This third bar chart tells the sad stress story of Americans mid-summer, compared with how people felt in 2017 and 2019. Some 7 in 10 Americans said that “this,” right now, was the lowest point in history they could remember, versus 56% and 59% in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Clearly, U.S.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 22, 2022

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this pandemic time, we vote not just for health care , with concerns about the potential for an ACA repeal from the bench of the newly-re-formed U.S. Supreme Court , to concerns under the larger umbrella of “health.”.

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MAY 10, 2018

The Commonwealth Fund’s Issue Brief published October 2017 asks, “How Well Does Insurance Coverage Protect Consumers from Health Care Costs?” That’s because, regardless of partisan affiliation, health insurance coverage does not guarantee financial wellness. ” The answer: not well.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 13, 2024

To understand it, we need to break down the protections put in place by the ACA, and those that exist separately. Some basic preexisting condition protections exist independent of the ACA. Biden’s May ad focuses on how many people would be vulnerable if protections for people with preexisting conditions were lost.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2018

adults, age 19 to 64, by phone in November and December 2017. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, uber-Red Governor of the Dairy State, is working to bolster the ACA health insurance marketplaces for the state’s health citizens. The report is aptly titled, Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

“Let’s get this thing f-ing done,” Martha McSally passionately asserted on May 4, 2017. In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017.

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MAY 10, 2018

by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. I’m just the messenger – this was the Gallup poll’s finding from December 2017.

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JULY 12, 2019

Gallup’s top-line: while the economy is “the greatest in the history of America” in the words of President Trump, most Americans’ anxious feelings about their home economics have not improved much since he moved into the White House in January 2017.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

In the meantime, though, my colleagues over the firewall at KFF report that some 5 million more uninsured Americans are actually eligible for free health care coverage under the ACA. They can take some dollars out of Medicaid, you know, the largest expansion of which is part of ACA. Rovner: Yes.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And as we discovered in 2017, when they were trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid is actually pretty popular, too, because it takes care of a lot of people’s grandparents in nursing homes. And, you know, the ACA, or Obamacare, actually made a lot of headway in covering big swaths of the uninsured population.

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