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What the ACA Marketplaces Do for Your State
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...
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House Budget Bill and Tax Credit Expiration Will Make It Harder to Get and Afford Marketplace Health Plans
If the bill becomes law and Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits — which were passed during the pandemic and ...
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How the U.S. Can Better Understand — and Prevent — Maternal Deaths Related to Substance Use
Some state committees classify overdose or substance use deaths as “pregnancy-associated but not related” and thus do not ...
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How Community Health Centers Can Partner with Organizations to Adopt Value-Based Care
As health care moves toward value-based models, community health centers must adapt to remain sustainable while staying true ...
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Status of Women’s Health: 100 Days into the Trump Administration
The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the ...
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How National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Lead to Large-Scale Job Losses, Harm State Economies, and Strain Budgets
The Republican-led Congress has passed a “concurrent budget resolution” under which leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate have agreed to identify at least $1.5 trillion in savings as ...
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The Federal Rule on Medical Debt
In early January, the outgoing Biden administration finalized a new national standard that bans credit rating agencies from including medical debt on most consumer credit reports. The new rule, which ...
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Health Care Affordability for Older Adults: How the U.S. Compares to Other Countries
The Medicare program in the United States is a critical pathway to health care coverage for adults age 65 and older and younger people with disabilities. Beneficiaries have the option of receiving ...
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If Expanded Federal Premium Tax Credits Expire, State Affordability Programs Won’t Be Enough to Stem Widespread Coverage Losses
A core goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to make comprehensive individual market health insurance more affordable. To accomplish this, the law features insurance premium tax credits (PTCs) as ...
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Health Care for Women: How the U.S. Compares Internationally
Recently released federal data once again show the United States with by far the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Racial ...
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Hospital Global Budgeting: Lessons from Maryland and Selected Nations
In hospital global budgeting arrangements, a payer or a regulator sets a total amount for patient care revenue that a hospital may receive over a year’s time. As a form of value-based payment, global ...
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Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison
The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...