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At Tax Time, No Public Backlash Over Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

Apr 21, 2015

From Drew Altman

This was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on April 21, 2015. Tax season has come and gone with no great outbreak of protest about the Affordable Care Act’s least popular provision: the individual mandate. This central element of the ACA was included to help ensure that the individual insurance market would have balanced pools of healthier people and sicker people to help spread insurance risk and keep premiums reasonable. While most of the…
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.
A Brief History of the Affordable Care Act

Oct 1, 2024

Quick Take

With Election Day just over a month away, here is a timeline of significant ACA moments.
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.
As Governors Meet in D.C., Possible Federal Medicaid Cuts Loom as Big State Funding Issue

Feb 20, 2025

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In the face of reduced federal funding for Medicaid, states could be left with difficult choices – raise revenue or cut spending. Cuts to Medicaid could mean eliminating coverage for children, parents, working adults or those who might need long term care; limiting benefits; or cutting rates for plans or providers.
Early Indications of the Impact of the Enhanced Premium Tax Credit Expiration on 2026 Marketplace Premiums

Jun 3, 2025

Issue Brief

Every summer, health insurers submit rate filings to state regulators detailing expectations and justifying premium rate changes for ACA-regulated health plans for the coming year. With the enhanced premium tax credits set to expire at the end of 2025, consumers can expect increases in how much they pay for coverage. KFF examines 23 early insurer premium filings from Vermont, Oregon, Washington, and Washington, DC, which include an additional 4 percent increase in premiums, on average,…
An Additional 8.2 Million People are Expected to Be Uninsured from Changes in the ACA Marketplaces

Jun 10, 2025

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ACA Marketplace changes are technical and numerous but consequential. While more attention has been focused on cuts to Medicaid, upcoming changes to the ACA Marketplaces could lead to just as many people losing health insurance coverage.
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.

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