Tracking Poll: A Large and Growing Majority, Including Republicans, Does Not Want the Supreme Court to Overturn the ACA’s Protections for People with Pre-Existing Conditions October 15, 2020 News Release As the Senate considers Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the October KFF Health Tracking Poll finds a large majority (79%) of the public do not want the Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions, up 17 percentage points since…
The 2020 Presidential Election: Implications for Women’s Health October 15, 2020 Issue Brief This brief and side-by-side tables reviews the key health issues that are likely to have a direct impact on women’s health as well as their access to coverage and care, and summarizes the presidential candidates’ stated positions and records on these issues.
This Week in Coronavirus: October 2 to October 8 October 9, 2020 Blog During the 38th week since the first coronavirus case appeared in the United States, worldwide cases surpassed the 36 million mark and United States has surpassed 7 million cases and 212,000 deaths.
Mental Illnesses May Soon Be the Most Common Pre-Existing Conditions October 8, 2020 Blog Because the prevalence of depression and anxiety disorders appears to have increased substantially since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, if the ACA is repealed, mental illnesses could be the most common pre-existing conditions.
Protecting People With Pre-Existing Conditions Isn’t As Easy As It Seems October 5, 2020 Blog With the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a lawsuit before the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) suddenly has a much better chance of succeeding. And, that could make protections for people with pre-existing conditions an even bigger campaign issue.
This Week in Coronavirus: September 25 to October 1 October 2, 2020 Blog During the 37th week since the first coronavirus case appeared in the United States, worldwide cases surpassed the 34 million mark and United States’ cases are over 7 million and surpassed 207,000 deaths.
Pre-existing Conditions: What Are They and How Many People Have Them? October 1, 2020 Blog Facing a challenge now before the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) included provisions to protect people with pre-existing conditions from discrimination in the individual employment market. This post explains what pre-existing conditions are and the different estimates for the number of people who have them.
Eliminating the ACA: What Could It Mean for Medicaid Expansion? October 1, 2020 Blog The debate over filling the Supreme Court seat previously held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg has brought renewed attention to the possibility of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being overturned under the court challenge in California v. Texas, currently scheduled to be heard shortly after the election this November. The expansion of Medicaid was a central component of the ACA, and 39 states have now adopted the ACA expansion into their Medicaid programs. Because Medicaid is administered by states, under federal guidelines, there may be some confusion about how overturning the federal law would affect state Medicaid programs.
How Health Insurers Responded to Applicants with Pre-existing Conditions Before and After the Affordable Care Act September 30, 2020 Slide The fate of the Affordable Care Act is again in doubt, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments in California v. Texas days after the Presidential election. Protections for people with pre-existing conditions are at risk it is worth revisiting what it was like for people with pre-existing conditions to obtain coverage before this law.