Uninsured and Under Insured

Health Insurance Coverage for Americans with Pre Existing Conditions The Impact of the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a range of nationwide protections for Americans with pre-existing health conditions. This analysis updates a 2011 analysis of the impact of the ACA’s pre-existing conditions protections. It confirms that a large fraction of non-elderly Americans have pre-existing health conditions and shows that tens of...

Compilation of State Data on the Affordable Care Act

Compilation of State Data on the Affordable Care Act...

Issues in Developing Programs for Uninsured Children: A Resource Book for States. APPENDIX C: Resource Kits by State

The following documents are available in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). It comes preinstalled in some Internet browsers. If it's not already in your browser, it's available for Windows (all versions), Macintosh OS, OS/2, Unix. Free Adobe Acrobat Reader : California CaliforniaKids Enrollment Form Colorado...

Impact of the ACA on Small Businesses - Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

This testimony before the U.S. Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee highlights how the ACA has helped small businesses and their employees, by expanding coverage, improving quality and addressing health care cost growth. These high level milestones, along with the small employer tax credit and the creation of the Small Business Hea...

Eligible Uninsured African Americans: 6 in 10 Could Receive Health Insurance Marketplace Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP. Notes

1 ASPE tabulations from the CY 2011 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (ACS PUMS) are adjusted to exclude estimated undocumented persons based on ASPE’s TRIM3 microsimulation model. All references to eligible uninsured in this brief use these tabulations. See the methodology section for more information. For more information...

Methodological Overview and Study Limitations

Eligible Uninsured African Americans: 6 in 10 Could Receive Health Insurance Marketplace Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP. Methodological Overview and Study Limitations

This analysis is based on ASPE analysis of the 2011 American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (ACS PUMS), the best source for obtaining information about the current characteristics of the uninsured population at the state level and for smaller demographic groups. ASPE tabulations from the ACS PUMS have been adjusted to exclude estimat...

Eligible Uninsured African Americans: 6 in 10 Could Receive Health Insurance Marketplace Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP. African Americans by Location

By State — As noted earlier, eligible uninsured African Americans are generally concentrated in Southern states. Nearly two-fifths (38 percent) live in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Texas. Table 3 shows the number of eligible African Americans and those who are uninsured in all 50 states and the District of Columbia....

Eligible Uninsured African Americans: 6 in 10 Could Receive Health Insurance Marketplace Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP. African Americans and Medicaid

Many uninsured African Americans may be eligible for coverage through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at little or no cost. About 1.4 million eligible uninsured African American adults (21 percent of all eligible uninsured African Americans) who reside in states expanding their Medicaid programs may be eligible for Med...

Eligible Uninsured African Americans: 6 in 10 Could Receive Health Insurance Marketplace Tax Credits, Medicaid or CHIP. African Americans and the Marketplace

Each state has a Health Insurance Marketplace where consumers can shop for and purchase health insurance coverage. In states that are expanding Medicaid, individuals and families with household incomes from 138 to 400 percent of the FPL may be eligible for tax credits to make health insurance even more affordable. In states that do not expand Medi...

Health Coverage and Care for Reentering Men: What Difference Can It Make?

Many community-based organizations serving men coming out of the criminal justice system recognize that their clients have serious physical, mental, and behavioral health needs. They also recognize that the Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid expansion have created new opportunities for their clients to get access to affordable health care, howev...

Plan Selections by ZIP Code and County in the Health Insurance Marketplace: March 2016

The dataset provides the total number of Qualified Health Plan selections by ZIP Code and county for the 38 states that use the HealthCare.gov platform, including the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces, State Partnership Marketplaces, and supported State-based Marketplaces, during the Marketplace’s third Open Enrollment Period (based on data for...

Health Insurance Coverage and the Affordable Care Act, 2010 - 2016

This issue brief reviews the most recent survey and administrative information available about gains in health insurance coverage since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. We estimate that the provisions of the ACA have resulted in gains in health insurance coverage for 20.0 million adults through early 2016 (through February 2...

Continuation of Research on Consumer Directed Health Plans: HSA Simulation Model Refinement . Footnotes

1 2006 Blue Book, United States Department of the Treasury, February, 2006. 2 HDHP stands for High Deductible Health Plan. This plan design generally has a substantial deductible and/or coinsurance requirement that must be met before catastrophic health insurance is activated for medical care reimbursement....