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Repayments and Refunds: Estimating the Effects of 2014 Premium Tax Credit Reconciliation

Mar 24, 2015
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This analysis estimates the range of repayment or refund amounts of the advanced premium tax credits issued to enrollees who experience income volatility between the time of enrollment and tax credit reconciliation. Using a simulation model among all households eligible for advance payments of the premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, it estimates that half would owe a repayment while 45 percent would be issued a refund of some or all of premium subsidies received.
At Five Year Anniversary of the ACA, Gap Between Favorable and Unfavorable Views Among The Public Narrows to Smallest Spread in More Than Two Years

Mar 19, 2015
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Most Expect Negative Consequences if Supreme Court Prohibits Subsidies in States Without Their Own Insurance Exchanges; Two Thirds of the Public and Those in Affected States Want Congress or Their State to Close Any Gaps As April 15 Tax Deadline Nears, Nearly Half Unaware Insurance Reporting Requirement Starts This Year Five years after President Obama…
At Tax Time, No Public Backlash Over Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

Apr 21, 2015
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As tax season closes, Drew Altman looks at why the ACA’s individual mandate and tax credit reconciliation process “passed their first major hurdles this tax season with no significant public backlash,” in his latest column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank.
A Per Capita Cap for Medicaid: Solution in Search of a Problem?

Jan 10, 2025
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A per capita cap in Medicaid may be a solution in search of a problem. However, if a cap substantially reduced federal Medicaid spending over time, it would put states at financial risk and force cuts to services and rates paid to physicians, hospitals, and nursing homes.
House GOP Eyeing Cuts of Nearly One-Third in Projected Federal Medicaid Spending

Jan 13, 2025
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House Republicans are considering deficit reductions of $5.5 trillion, which includes $2.3 trillion cuts in Medicaid… Cuts of this magnitude would put states at financial risk, forcing them to raise new revenues or reduce Medicaid spending
Clues From Polling About How Opinion Might Change If We Had More Informed Health Policy Debate?

Jun 18, 2025
From Drew Altman

In a new column, Dr. Drew Altman, KFF’s President and CEO, discusses the limits of polling on policy, and what we have learned over more than 30 years of polling about how giving people more information and arraying tradeoffs can change opinion, including on the health policy changes and funding cuts in the current reconciliation bill.
Which States Might have to Reduce Provider Taxes Under the Senate Reconciliation Bill?

Jun 18, 2025
Policy Watch

If Congress passes the reconciliation bill with the Finance Committee provision, 22 states might have to reduce their provider taxes on either hospitals or managed care organizations, cutting a key source of state Medicaid funding in those states. This policy watch explains how the Finance Committee provision would reduce states’ Medicaid spending, and the implications for expansion states.
Policy Uncertainty is Creating Challenges for ACA Marketplace Insurers

Jun 25, 2025
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Until Congress passes the reconciliation bill, Marketplace insurers will face uncertainty regarding the regulatory landscape and may find it difficult to set premiums for 2026.
Final Budget Resolution Codifies Unreconciled Differences on Medicaid Cuts in House and Senate Reconciliation

Apr 9, 2025
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The budget resolution is unusual because it establishes different tracks for reconciliation in each chamber: House committees are instructed to increase deficits by $2.3 trillion, with major cuts to Medicaid; and Senate committees are instructed to increase deficits by what amounts to $5.8 trillion, without clear implications for Medicaid cuts.
Can Democrats Make the Medicaid and ACA Cuts Their Winning Political Issue Before People Feel the Cuts?

Jul 9, 2025
From Drew Altman

In his latest Beyond the Data column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman discusses whether Democrats can make the Medicaid and ACA cuts a winning political issue before the midterm elections and before most people feel the cuts.

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