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For coverage year 2025, Marketplace premium tax credit eligibility and subsidy amounts are calculated using the 2024 federal poverty guidelines (for example, the 2025 FPL is $15,060 for a single adult...
Federal changes taking effect in 2026 will tighten Medicaid’s income and administrative rules, end the enhanced expansion match (FMAP), add six‑month redeterminations for many adults, and restrict eli...
Recent comparative studies and scorecards show mixed findings: fact-check tallies have at times rated large shares of claims on MSNBC as Mostly False or worse (about 44–45% in PolitiFact scorecards) w...
Average health insurance premiums in the individual and employer markets have diverged over the past decade, with recent analyses showing , while marketplace pre-subsidy premiums rose from roughly $58...
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) temporarily expanded ACA premium tax credit eligibility by removing the 400% of federal poverty level (FPL) cap for 2021–2022 and—after extension in the Inflation R...
The Republican health‑care agenda for 2024 centers on that favor block grants, work requirements, and more limited subsidies. Analysts describe this set of priorities as a mix of regulatory fixes—like...
Yes — temporarily. The American Rescue Plan (ARPA) removed the ACA’s 400% federal poverty level (FPL) cutoff for premium tax credits beginning in 2021, and the Inflation Reduction Act extended that ex...
For 2025 coverage the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set the baseline federal poverty guideline for the 48 contiguous states and D.C. at $15,650 for a single person; for larger household...
Joe Biden drew three broad and recurring lines of criticism: on competence and fitness (age, health, public gaffes), on policy outcomes (economy, immigration, Ukraine choices), and on ethics/managemen...
In 2026 eligibility for major benefits ties to tiers of the federal poverty level (FPL): Medicaid expansion typically covers up to 138% FPL while ACA premium tax credits generally apply between 100%–4...
If Congress takes no further action, the enhanced ACA premium tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan and extended by the Inflation Reduction Act will expire Dec. 31, 2025, and 2026 subsidy...
The provided analyses converge on a clear finding: , relying instead on emergency care and state-level workarounds. The three sources show evidence across time — a 2022 policy simulation, a 2023 empir...
Florida, Texas, California, North Carolina, and Georgia are consistently identified as the states with the largest numbers of residents enrolled in ACA Marketplace plans, with in absolute enrollment a...
The federal poverty guidelines (also called the Federal Poverty Level, FPL) are annual income standards published for administrative use by federal programs and set by the Department of Health and Hum...
The temporary “enhanced” premium tax credits (PTCs) — the ARPA/IRA-era expansions that capped premiums and extended subsidies above 400% of the federal poverty level — are scheduled to expire at the e...
Former members of the U.S. House do not automatically keep Capitol medical privileges but they can access federal health plans in limited circumstances: they may purchase FEHB coverage after leaving o...
Staggered Roth conversions should be modeled as a multi-year optimization problem that balances current tax costs against future savings while explicitly controlling Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MA...
States vary widely in whether and how they provide public health programs to undocumented immigrants: some have created fully state-funded coverage for adults and children, while others are passing la...
Republican leaders publicly assert that protections for people with pre-existing conditions are preserved in their 2025 health-care proposals, promising continued access through healthcare.gov, bans o...
If Congress allows the temporary “enhanced” premium tax credits to expire at the end of 2025, multiple analyses and insurer filings project large increases in what marketplace enrollees pay in 2026: K...