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The Regulation of Private Health Insurance

Oct 3, 2025
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This Health Policy 101 chapter explores the complex landscape of private health insurance regulation in the United States, detailing the interplay between state and federal regulations that shape access, affordability, and the adequacy of private health coverage. It focuses on key laws such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Employer Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and discusses how regulations impact the private insurance market, illustrating the challenges consumers face in navigating this system.
International Comparison of Health Systems

Oct 3, 2025
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This Health Policy 101 chapter explores the performance of the U.S. health system on a number of cost, outcomes, and quality measures by comparing it with those in similarly large and wealthy OECD nations. It highlights that despite significant spending, Americans have shorter life expectancies and encounter more barriers to health care, influenced by both the health system's structure and broader socioeconomic factors.
The Affordable Care Act 101

Oct 3, 2025
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This Health Policy 101 chapter provides an overview of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major reform of the U.S. health care system aimed at reducing high uninsured rates and alleviating issues like high out-of-pocket costs and coverage exclusions for preexisting conditions. The ACA significantly altered many aspects of the health system and the chapter explores its mechanisms, such as the Health Insurance Marketplaces, and the evolution of the law since its passage in 2010 to the changes in the 2025 budget reconciliation law.
Rolling Back the Big Beautiful Bill’s Health Care Provisions Would Not Provide Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants

Oct 2, 2025
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Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded health coverage. The GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill didn’t change that. Overturning the health care provisions in the law won’t either.
Women Who Report Visiting a Dentist or Dental Clinic within the Past Year by Race/Ethnicity

Sep 30, 2025
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Women Who Report Having No Personal Doctor/Health Care Provider by Race/Ethnicity

Sep 29, 2025
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Adults Who Report Not Seeing a Doctor in the Past 12 Months Because of Cost by Sex

Sep 26, 2025
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Adults Who Report Not Having a Personal Doctor/Health Care Provider by Sex

Sep 26, 2025
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Deja Vu: the Future of Abortion Coverage in ACA Marketplace Plans

Sep 26, 2025
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This policy watch explains how abortion coverage works in ACA Marketplace plans, state actions to include or exclude abortion coverage in these plans, and the potential impact if Congress bans abortion coverage in all Marketplace plans.
1.4 Million Lawfully Present Immigrants are Expected to Lose Health Coverage due to the 2025 Tax and Budget Law

Sep 25, 2025
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This policy watch outlines the groups of lawfully present immigrants that will lose access to federally funded health coverage due to the 2025 tax and budget law, and the CBO’s estimates of the increases in the uninsured.

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