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Health Coverage Affordability Crisis 2020 Biennial Survey

(2 days ago) WEBIn the first half of 2020, 43.4 percent of U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 were inadequately insured. This is statistically unchanged from the last time we fielded the survey in 2018. The adult uninsured rate was 12.5 percent. In addition, 9.5 percent of adults …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/aug/looming-crisis-health-coverage-2020-biennial

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Even With Health Insurance, Many Americans Still …

(2 days ago) WEBThe president-elect has vowed to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, which gave millions of Americans health insurance. But …

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/12/934146128/despite-aca-coverage-gains-millions-still-suffer-catastrophic-health-care-costs

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COVID Relief Provisions Stabilized Health Coverage, …

(7 days ago) WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn prompted widespread expectations of severe declines in health insurance coverage, as people lost their jobs and saw their incomes plunge. But the federal …

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/covid-relief-provisions-stabilized-health-coverage-improved-access-and

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Tracking The Uninsured Rate In 2019 And 2020 Health Affairs

(5 days ago) WEBThe uninsured rate continued to rise in 2019. Two new analyses—one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the other from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) —discuss

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/tracking-uninsured-rate-2019-and-2020

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How Has the Pandemic Affected Health Coverage in the U.S.?

(Just Now) WEBKFF Headquarters: 185 Berry St., Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone 650-854-9400 Washington Offices and Barbara Jordan Conference Center: 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005 Phone

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/how-has-the-pandemic-affected-health-coverage-in-the-u-s/

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As health care costs rise, a plan to save Americans over $700 billion

(9 days ago) WEBAs health care costs rise, a plan to save Americans over $700 billion. Published January 24, 2023. America is facing an affordability crisis when it comes to our health care. The average premium for an employer-provided family health insurance policy reached $22,221 in 2021. That’s one-third of the median household income and …

https://www.bcbs.com/the-health-of-america/articles/health-care-costs-rise-a-plan-save-americans-over-700-billion-bcbs-companies-propose-affordability-solution

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Biden Administration Tackles Financial Strains on Healthcare …

(4 days ago) WEBHealth insurance premiums have grown over the years, primarily due to the rapidly increasing prices charged for care. Between 2016 and 2020 alone, healthcare prices increased at roughly double the rate of general inflation. Americans have long been facing a healthcare affordability crisis. In response, the Biden Administration has

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/financial-strains-healthcare.html

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Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs KFF

(9 days ago) WEBAdults in households with annual incomes under $40,000 are more than three times as likely as adults in households with incomes over $90,000 to say it is difficult to afford their health care

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs/

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New survey reveals health care affordability crisis amid COVID-19 …

(Just Now) WEBNew survey reveals health care affordability crisis amid COVID-19 pandemic. The Commonwealth Fund recently explored the quality of health coverage for U.S. working-age adults in the first half of 2020. Among the findings: Two in five adults do not have stable health coverage. The Commonwealth Fund recently conducted its latest Biennial Health

https://www.risehealth.org/insights-articles/new-survey-reveals-health-care-affordability-crisis-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

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Rising rates of uninsurance may foretell US public health crisis

(9 days ago) WEBTexas had the highest state uninsurance rate in 2019, with 18.4% of residents lacking coverage, followed by Oklahoma at 14.3%, Georgia at 13.4% and Florida at 13.2%. At the other end of the spectrum, only 3% of people in Massachusetts lacked insurance in 2019, as did 3.5% of people in Washington, D.C., and 4.1% in Rhode Island.

https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/50/9/1.2

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U.S. health insurance coverage in 2020: A looming crisis in

(7 days ago) WEBThe survey began on January 14, 2020 — just before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. We interviewed a nationally representative sample of 4,272 adults ages 19 to 64 about their health insurance coverage through June 5. (See “How We Conducted This Study” for more detail.) Despite the severity of the …

https://maineallcare.org/u-s-health-insurance-coverage-in-2020-a-looming-crisis-in-affordability/

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Unexpected Health Insurance Profits and the COVID-19 Crisis

(7 days ago) WEBFor example, the UnitedHealth Group’s net income during the second quarter grew from $3.4 billion in 2019 to $6.7 billion in 2020 and Anthem Inc’s net income increased from $1.1 billion to $2.3 billion. Under the law, insurers must return a large portion of these excess revenues back to individuals, families, and employers.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2772481

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The Two Health Care Cost Crises KFF

(9 days ago) WEBCMS actuaries project that health spending will grow on average, 5.4% per year through 2031, outpacing projected average growth in nominal GDP of 4.6% per year and resulting in health spending

https://www.kff.org/from-drew-altman/the-two-health-care-cost-crises/

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NEWS RELEASE U.S. Health Insurance Coverage in 2020: A …

(2 days ago) WEBHave Stable Health Coverage; More Than One-Third Have Medical Bill Problems Commonwealth Fund Survey Shows Looming Crisis in Health Care Affordability as the COVID-19 Economic Downturn Continues In the first half of 2020, 43 percent of working-age adults did not have stable health insurance coverage.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/Collins_biennial_2020_PR_v2.pdf

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Eliminate private insurance: Where 2020 Democrats stand

(6 days ago) WEBBackground Some current Medicare-for-all proposals, including those from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) virtually eliminate private insurance by providing basic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/medicare-for-all/private-insurance/

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Did Obamacare ‘massively’ increase the cost of health care?

(1 days ago) WEBAs for the individual market, before the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies could consider a person’s health status when determining premiums, sometimes making coverage unaffordable or

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/13/did-obamacare-massively-increase-cost-health-care/

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2020 Democrats on Health Care - The New York Times

(9 days ago) WEBSingle-payer health care is a dividing line in the race, separating Democrats who want to replace the private insurance system from those who favor improving it. Some candidates — like Bernie

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/obamacare-democratic-candidates.html

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Health costs threaten to overshadow Biden's historic coverage …

(1 days ago) WEBPresident Biden has come closer than any of his Democratic predecessors to reaching the party's long-standing goal of universal health coverage, but unaffordable care costs may overshadow the achievement.. Why it matters: Having health insurance by itself doesn't guarantee that care will be affordable, and voters feeling the pain of …

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-health-costs-insurance

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How to buy health insurance during the COVID-19 crisis

(7 days ago) WEBA COVID-related special enrollment period is still available in several states. The American Rescue Plan makes marketplace individual/family coverage much more affordable in 2021 and 2022. Open enrollment for 2022 coverage starts November 1, 2021 (and the Biden administration has proposed a permanent one-month extension to the …

https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/how-to-buy-health-insurance-during-the-covid-19-crisis/

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With Eye Toward Protecting Container Royalty and MILA Benefits …

(2 days ago) WEBNORTH BERGEN, NJ – (April 21, 2020). Today, ILA Executive Vice President Dennis A. Daggett addressed the issue of ILA employers paying workforce hazard pay during COVID-19 Pandemic. the union leadership must first protect its Container Royalty Funds and MILA Health Care Benefits which directly affects tens of …

https://ilaunion.org/2020/04/with-eye-toward-protecting-container-royalty-and-mila-benefits-and-eligibility-during-covid-19-pandemic-ilas-dennis-daggett-spells-out-why-hazard-pay-could-threaten-industr/

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Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities

(5 days ago) WEBThe 2020 Rule provides that “health program or activity” encompasses “all of the operations of entities principally engaged in the business of providing healthcare ” (emphasis added) and specifies that a health insurance issuer is not considered to be principally engaged in the business of providing health care merely by virtue of

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/06/2024-08711/nondiscrimination-in-health-programs-and-activities

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ILA and USMX Revise Eligibility Requirements for MILA Coverage …

(4 days ago) WEBNORTH BERGEN, NJ (October 1, 2020) – ILA Employees covered under MILA and entering the third year of the current six-year Master Contract today on October 1st, will not experience a loss or reduction of the MILA coverage they had in the 2020 Contract year caused by COVID-19. “Health care coverage four our ILA workers covered under the

https://ilaunion.org/2020/10/ila-and-usmx-revise-eligibility-requirements-for-mila-coverage-in-response-to-loss-of-work-during-covid-19-pandemic-ila-employees-covered-will-not-experience-loss-of-coverage/

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NYC Council Calls for Funding Restorations and Investments in …

(6 days ago) WEBMayor’s FY25 Executive Budget failed to include funding for key hospital, mental health and maternal health services . City Hall, NY – Ahead of the City Council’s Executive Budget hearings by the Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction, Committee on Health, and Committee on Hospitals, with the Committee on Finance, the …

https://council.nyc.gov/press/2024/05/14/2603/

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Homeowners Face Rising Insurance Rates Amid Costly Climate …

(8 days ago) WEBThe state’s favorable insurance market began to unravel in 2020, said Tom O’Meara, chief executive officer of the group that represents the state’s independent insurance agents.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/13/climate/insurance-homes-climate-change-weather.html

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