Medicaid

Will a surge in enrollments prompted by the pandemic mean cuts to benefits?

With the Affordable Care Act back in the spotlight, we break down the available options.

More than 5 million people who lost their jobs lost their health insurance and didn’t find an alternative.

Despite a strong a economy, the uninsured rate rose last year for the first time since Obamacare.

If a person without authorization to be in the U.S. can afford it, they can purchase nongovernment-subsidized insurance. But few jobs pay enough.

Caring for the elderly is expensive for insurers and for families.

One of the big winners in November’s midterm election was public health insurance coverage – specifically expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Today is the final day for comment for the Trump administration’s public charge proposal that would make it harder for immigrants to qualify for citizenship if they’ve used public benefits, including SNAP, public housing and Medicaid. Immigrants who’ve received cash assistance or long-term medical care already have a strike against them when they apply for […]

Since its inception, the Affordable Care Act has faced fierce Republican efforts to dismantle it. But on Tuesday three of the country’s most conservative states voted to adopt a key provision of the ACA. In Utah, Nebraska and Idaho, voters approved ballot measures to expand Medicaid health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of lower-income […]