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2025 KFF Marketplace Enrollees Survey

About one in three ACA enrollees said they would be “very likely” to look for a lower-premium Marketplace plan If their premium payments doubled, according to a KFF survey conducted in 2025.

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Tracking the Public’s Views on the ACA

While overall opinion of the Affordable Care Act has been more favorable than unfavorable since 2017, there remain deep partisan divides. See how public opinion on the ACA has changed from the inception of the law to the present. This interactive tool highlights key moments when views shifted and trends based on party identification, income, age, gender, and race/ethnicity.

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  • What’s in There? The New Health Reform Law and Private Insurance

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    This briefing focuses on how the reform law affects access to private coverage, including the new federal high-risk pools, tax credits for small businesses, health insurance exchanges, the individual mandate and employer obligations. This briefing, cosponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation, explored these and other issues. For more information, please visit Alliance's event page. Full Video    Speakers for this session: The panel is co-moderated by Diane Rowland of…

  • Today’s Topics In Health Disparities: HHS’ Action Plan to Reduce Health Disparities

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    Today's Topics in Health Disparities webcast examined the new Department of Health and Human Services’ Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. The program addressed the contents of the strategy and its timeline for implementation as well as its implications for providers. The panelists also discussed how the new strategy relates to other recently released HHS strategies including the National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care, the National Prevention and Health Promotion…

  • The Public and the Health Care Delivery System — Summary and Chartpack

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    This summary and chartpack of the results of a survey by NPR and researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health highlight the public's attitudes and experiences with the American health care delivery system. The new survey sheds light on Americans' experiences with issues more typically discussed by health policy experts –- including electronic medical records, coordination of care and comparative effectiveness –- all of which have become serious components…

  • POSTPONED – The ACA at 10: What We’ve Learned from the States and How the 2020 Elections Could Shape the Future

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    THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. This planned March 18 public forum organized by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Academy for State Health Policy public forum has been postponed. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available. The event would have featured two panel discussions examining the Affordable Care Act's impact on states and potential changes on the horizon. The first panel includes officials from five states and will explore how states approached…

  • The Effects of Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Studies from January 2014 to January 2020

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    This literature review summarizes findings from 404 studies of the impact of state Medicaid expansions under the ACA published between January 2014 (when the coverage provisions of the ACA went into effect) and January 2020. It includes studies, analyses, and reports published by government, research, and policy organizations using data from 2014 or later. This body of research suggests that the expansion presents an opportunity for gains in coverage, improvements in access and financial security,…

  • Health Reform and Medicare: Overview of Key Provisions Tutorial

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    This tutorial was produced for kaiserEDU.org, a Kaiser Family Foundation website that ceased production in September 2013. The kaiserEDU.org tutorials are no longer being updated but have been made available on kff.org due to demand by professors who are using the tutorials in class assignments. You may search for other tutorials to view on kff.org. To download this or other tutorials, visit the tutorials archive page.  Slides are available for download using the "Download Slides" link within the…

  • Those Long Lines To Enroll In The ACA

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    In the latest post from the series Policy Insights, Kaiser Family Foundation President and CEO Drew Altman discusses the need for community based outreach to enroll the long term uninsured. All previous Policy Insights posts are archived online. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a leader in health policy analysis, health journalism and communication, is dedicated to filling the need for trusted, independent information on the major health issues facing our nation and its people. The Foundation…

  • I received premium tax credits last year. At the end of the year though, my total income ended up being lower than the minimum income eligibility level for premium tax credits. Will I have to repay the...

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    No, you will not be required to repay the premium tax credits paid on your behalf when you file your tax return as long as the tax credits were authorized and paid for at least one month during the year. In this situation, if the Marketplace found that your estimated income made you eligible for premium tax credits at the time you enrolled, even though your income later fell below the minimum income eligibility level…