Aviva Aron-Dine
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With Need Rising, Medicaid Is at Risk for Cuts
With the state budget crisis intensifying and states beginning to exhaust their options to defer budget cuts, they will likely make deeper and more widespread cuts to Medicaid and other health programs unless federal policymakers provide additional funds and maintain strong protections for Medicaid enrollees. → Read More
Congress Should Reject Attempts to Weaken Medicaid Protections Enacted in Bipartisan COVID-19 Response Bill
States received a significant temporary increase in federal Medicaid funding in the bipartisan Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which was signed into law on March 18. In exchange for this increase in federal funding, they can’t impose new Medicaid eligibility restrictions, or take away people’s coverage, during the public health emergency. Now, some policymakers are → Read More
President’s “Health Reform Vision”: $1 Trillion in Cuts, No Plan to Protect People With Pre-Existing Conditions
For months, the Administration has promised that it has a plan for Americans’ health care if it wins its lawsuit seeking to eliminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The President has also pledged to pursue ACA repeal legislation in 2021 if Republicans control Congress. The President’s new budget doesn’t outline a health care plan. Instead, it includes an “allowance for the → Read More
States Can’t Protect Themselves From Harmful Effects of ACA Repeal
The Trump Administration and 18 state attorneys general are asking the courts to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) as unconstitutional. → Read More
New Research: Medicaid Expansion Saves Lives
Since the start of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion to low-income adults, evidence has poured in that the expansion is helping enrollees access and afford care. But as more time passes, researchers can also examine how expansion is affecting other health and financial outcomes. New research finds the policy is delivering on its promise to improve both → Read More
Administration’s Poverty Line Proposal Would Cut Health, Food Assistance for Millions Over Time
The Trump Administration is considering a change to the federal poverty line that would ultimately cause millions of people to lose eligibility for, or receive less help from, health, food assistance, and other programs that help them meet basic needs. → Read More
Poverty Line Proposal Would Cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Premium Tax Credits, Causing Millions to Lose or See Reduced Benefits Over Time
A proposal the Trump Administration is considering to use a lower inflation measure to calculate annual adjustments to the federal poverty line. → Read More
Blocking Trump Rule on Short-Term Health Plans Would Benefit Consumers
By blocking the rule and making other changes, the House bill would increase the number of people with comprehensive health coverage. → Read More
Trump’s ACA Replacement Would Do Much the Same Damage as His Effort to Repeal the Law Through the Courts
In calling for higher courts to uphold U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Trump promised to replace the ACA with legislation that supposedly will lower costs while protecting people with pre-existing conditions, although he now says he won’t seek to pass legislation until 2021. → Read More
For ACA’s 9th Anniversary, CBPP Examines Options to Further Expand Coverage
Nine years after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010, the uninsured rate remains at a historic low and more than 20 million people have gained coverage — but about 30 million non-elderly people are still uninsured. Several new CBPP analyses examine the uninsured and identify policies to continue expanding coverage and making coverage and → Read More
Impact of the Administration’s Policies Affecting the Affordable Care Act
Testimony of Aviva Aron-Dine before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies → Read More
Change to Insurance Payment Formulas Would Raise Costs for Millions With Marketplace or Employer Plans
The change would raise premiums for at least 7.3 million marketplace consumers by cutting their premium tax credits. → Read More
ACA Repeal Bills Would Do Much the Same Damage as Judge’s Decision to Strike Down the Law
President Trump and some congressional Republicans are portraying federal Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as an opportunity to return to last year’s ACA “repeal and replace” proposals, which they argue could solve the problems the ruling would create if allowed to stand. → Read More
Eligibility Restrictions in Recent Medicaid Waivers Would Cause Many Thousands of People to Become Uninsured
Independent experts and states themselves have projected that many Medicaid enrollees will lose coverage due to these restrictions. → Read More
Texas Suit Is Only Latest Attempt to End or Weaken Protections for People With Pre-Existing Conditions
Responding to the Trump Administration’s decision not to defend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) against a suit from the attorneys general of Texas and 19 other states and to instead urge the court to invalidate the ACA’s core protections for people with pre-existing health conditions, several leading → Read More
Many Working People Could Lose Health Coverage Due to Medicaid Work Requirements
Medicaid work requirements will almost certainly cause many low-income adults to lose health coverage. Less understood, many working people also will likely lose coverage due to work requirements. → Read More
Alexander-Murray Wouldn’t Reverse Cost Increases from Individual Mandate Repeal
A number of Senate Republicans have suggested that passing Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray’s bipartisan market stabilization bill would reduce premiums enough to largely or entirely offset the premium increases individual insurance market consumers would face from repealing the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate, the requirement that most peo → Read More
Republicans Considering Increasing Number of Uninsured by Millions, Raising Premiums to Help Pay for Tax Cuts
At President Trump’s urging and with the support of some Republican senators, House Republicans are considering adding to their tax bill a provision repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. → Read More
The Outlook for Marketplace Open Enrollment
This open enrollment will be the first under an Administration that has sought to undermine the ACA marketplaces, rather than strengthen them. → Read More
CBO: Alexander-Murray Bill Will Benefit Consumers, Lower Federal Costs
The Bipartisan Health Care Stabilization Act from Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray — the Chairman and senior Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee — would benefit consumers and save the federal government $3.8 billion over ten years, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis finds. → Read More