Whether in a red or blue state, the state commissioner jobs do require decent working relationships with insurance companies, particularly in precarious times as insurers threaten to leave some areas with no ACA coverage because of poor market conditions or dithering in Washington, D.C.
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JAMA Health Forum
December 2024
KFF, San Francisco, California.
The Affordable Care Act ("ACA") contains a section titled "Requirement to Maintain Essential Minimum Coverage." Colloquially known as the Individual Mandate, this section of the Act initially established a monetary penalty for anyone who did not maintain health insurance in a given tax year. But with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the monetary penalty was reset to zero, inducing opponents of the ACA to mount a legal challenge over the Individual Mandate's constitutionality.
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May 2024
KFF, San Francisco, California.
Health Econ Policy Law
July 2024
Public Affairs and Policy, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA.
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) was the most significant policy breakthrough to expand health insurance coverage in the USA in 45 years. Culminating a decade-long effort by Republicans to repeal and undermine the ACA, the Trump administration launched a panoply of executive initiatives to sabotage the law. Benefitting from Democratic control of both the House and Senate during its first 2 years, the Biden administration through legislative and executive initiatives made substantial headway in reversing Trump's sabotage and further reinvigorating the ACA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHypothesis: With rising deductibles, patients will delay ear surgeries toward the end of the year, and there will be an increase in postoperative complications.
Background: The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, expanded high deductible health plans. The deductible can provide support for patients with high medical costs, but high deductibles deter patients from seeking necessary preventive health care and having elective procedures.
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