AcademyHealth: Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Safety Net

This policy brief summarizes a discussion at AcademyHealth’s National Health Policy Conference in 2011 about the impact of the Affordable Continue reading →

Breaking: ACA Employer Mandate and Penalties Postponed One Year

The U.S. Treasury Department announced today, through a blog posting from Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy Mark Mazur, that enforcement of the Continue reading →

2013 Federal Poverty Levels

Here are the 2013 Federal Poverty Levels (FPL) for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia, and for Continue reading →

General Accountability Office: Status of CMS Efforts to Establish Federally Facilitated Health Insurance Exchanges

This report from the General Accountability Office (GAO) describes the progress that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Continue reading →

Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight: Guidance on Federally Facilitated Exchanges

This is the guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight for Continue reading →

Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight: State-Based Health Insurance Exchanges

Here is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) website listing the 18 Continue reading →

Center for Health Care Strategies: Health Literacy Implications of Health Care Reform

This policy analysis from the Center for Health Care Strategies was commissioned by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Continue reading →

Institute of Medicine: Helping Consumers Understand and Use Health Insurance in 2014

This discussion paper from members of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy describes some of the important concepts Continue reading →