A republican controlled Congress is looking to raid the ACA. Republicans consider reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion…

…we-need-to-fix-rather-than-repeal it, and hope that that nullifies the law’s unpopularity as a political problem. The way to nullify the law’s unpopularity as a political problem is to make the law…

I think I have this initial chart big enough so you can see it. I should not have to explain this as it is apparent what is happening with ACA…

by Andrew Sprung xpostfactoid Brian Blase, a conservative healthcare scholar at the Paragon Institute, is out with an analysis of 2024 ACA marketplace enrollment (summarized in this WSJ op-ed) claiming that millions of…

ACA Marketplace Reflections on Retention and Year-round Enrollment – by Andrew Sprung xpostfactoid Writing about the ACA marketplace at this point has an elegiac feel (as does writing about almost…

…for an individual signing up for coverage in 2026. This drew more middle-income individuals and families into the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, many of whom are in their 50s…

…10th in the afternoon, by a 4–3 divided along partisan lines, the court issued its order which will throw the election into chaos. The conservative majority court directed the Wisconsin…

…Republican Party. Ditto for food stamps. The really weird, but successful, argument by rightwing governors and state attorneys general to the Supreme Court in the ACA litigation on the Medicaid-expansion…

…the writ of habeas corpus (the right to contest detention in front of a court of law; historically, for civilians this means a non-military court of law). There’s a nice…

…that conflict with Plyler, trigger lawsuits, and present the Court with an opportunity to reconsider the case. The goal is not to refine the law. It is to dismantle it. We…