Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now?
Our experts explore why the share of COVID-19 deaths among those who are vaccinated has risen. Factors include a rising share of the population that is vaccinated, waning immune protection and low uptake of boosters, and changes in immunity among the unvaccinated.
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Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator
The Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator, updated with 2023 premium data, provides estimates of health insurance premiums and subsidies for people purchasing insurance on their own in health insurance exchanges (or “Marketplaces”) created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Nine Changes to Watch in ACA Open Enrollment 2023
The 2023 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Open Enrollment period will run from November 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023 in most states, longer in some state-based marketplaces. This policy watch examines nine changes that may affect what enrollees pay for coverage, the size of tax credits for those eligible, and other changes that could affect enrollees’ experiences.
What to Know About Shopping for Health Insurance Coverage
Browse our collection of FAQs, explainers and other resources for anyone shopping (or helping someone shop) for health plans within the ACA’s health insurance marketplaces.
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Navigating the Family Glitch Fix: Hurdles for Consumers with Employer-sponsored Coverage
About 5 million people could benefit from the fix to the Affordable Care Act’s “family glitch” that allows workers offered unaffordable family coverage to get subsidies in the marketplace – if they can show they qualify.
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Health and Health Care in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
This analysis finds communities along the U.S.-Mexico border faced an array of socioeconomic challenges and weak health infrastructures well before 2022 immigration surge.
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COVID-19 Cases and Deaths, Vaccinations, and Treatments by Race/Ethnicity as of Fall 2022
Over the course of the pandemic, racial disparities in cases and deaths have widened and narrowed. However, overall, Black, Hispanic, and American Indian and Alaska Native people have borne the heaviest health impacts of the pandemic.
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Workplace Benefits and Family Health Care Responsibilities
This brief, based on the 2022 KFF Women’s Health Survey highlights how workplace benefits and caring for children’s health care differ by gender and among different subpopulations of women.
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The Typical Medicare Beneficiary Has Close to 70 Different Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Stand-Alone Plan Options for 2023
The Medicare open enrollment period that runs from October 15 to December 7 each year is an opportunity for Medicare beneficiaries in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage to evaluate their current coverage, compare plans, and decide whether to make a change for the coming year. Beneficiaries can compare Medicare Advantage plans, mainly HMOs and PPOs,…More
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