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What the ACA Marketplaces Do for Your State
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, ...
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House Budget Bill and Tax Credit Expiration Will Make It Harder to Get and Afford Marketplace Health Plans
If the bill becomes law and Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits — which were passed during the pandemic and ...
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How the U.S. Can Better Understand — and Prevent — Maternal Deaths Related to Substance Use
Some state committees classify overdose or substance use deaths as “pregnancy-associated but not related” and thus do not report on these deaths. Other states do report on these cases and document ...
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Status of Women’s Health: 100 Days into the Trump Administration
The first 100 days of a new administration — while only a snapshot — can offer insight into the direction the rest of the ...
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Proposed Rule Will Make Consumers Pay More for Health Insurance and Care in the ACA Marketplaces
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplaces are providing affordable health insurance plans to a record 24 million Americans in a price-competitive market. Working-class people have enjoyed lower ...
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U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Provisional data show that drug ...
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The State of Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S.
An estimated 26 million Americans, or 8 percent of the U.S. population, lacked health insurance in 2023. 1 While the United States still lags countries that have universal coverage, today’s uninsured ...
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Health Care for Women: How the U.S. Compares Internationally
Recently released federal data once again show the United States with by far the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. 1 Racial ...
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Unforeseen Health Care Bills and Coverage Denials by Health Insurers in the U.S.
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. In this brief, we report findings ...
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The Health Care Experiences of People Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid
Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. People enrolled in both Medicare ...
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Hospital Global Budgeting: Lessons from Maryland and Selected Nations
In hospital global budgeting arrangements, a payer or a regulator sets a total amount for patient care revenue that a hospital may receive over a year’s time. As a form of value-based payment, global ...
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Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison
The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic. And within the U.S., the rate is by far the highest ...