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FAQs: Health Insurance Marketplace and the ACA

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Cost-Sharing Reductions

Early Retirees

Employer-Sponsored Health Coverage and the Marketplace

Health Insurance and Your Federal Income Tax Return

Help Paying Marketplace Premiums: Defining Income and Household

Help Paying Marketplace Premiums: The Basics

Help Paying Marketplace Premiums: When Other Coverage Is Available

Immigrants

Marketplace Basics

Marketplace Enrollment Periods

Marketplace Health Plans and Premiums

Medicaid and the Marketplace

Medicare and the Marketplace

Private Enrollment Websites for Marketplace Coverage

Renewing Marketplace Coverage

Short-Term Limited Duration Policies and Other Policies Sold Outside of the Marketplace

Women's Health

Young Adults and Students