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Health Insurance: Consumer Resources

CHIR develops consumer-friendly fact sheets, resource guides, and online materials to help consumers, navigators, application counselors and others understand health insurance and the health insurance marketplaces.
Consumer Resources
Implementing The ACA

CHIR's "Implementing the ACA: Monitoring and Analysis of Insurance Reforms” project, supported by the Commonwealth Fund, monitors and analyzes state action to develop health insurance marketplaces, implement the new market reforms, and maintain a level playing field between health insurance markets.
ACA Project
Rapid Response Project

With generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, CHIR maintains the “Rapid Response” project, an ongoing series of timely issue briefs, blog posts and other analyses to address emerging issues in the implementation of the private health insurance reforms required by the ACA.
Rapid Response
Expert Services

CHIR’s expert faculty, comprised of former federal and state health insurance regulators, congressional staff, and health insurance experts, provides ongoing technical assistance to state and federal policymakers and other health care stakeholders.
Expert Services

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In The News

GOP Senate Candidates Are Scrambling To Rewrite Their Record On Pre-Existing Conditions (Huffington Post)
September 2, 2018
It’s the same thing Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and the rest of the party tried last year.
Virginia May Soon Take a Step Towards Providing Health Insurance Stability (Virginia Public Radio)
August 27, 2018
For people who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, recent years have seen some massive premium hikes. But now lawmakers in Virginia may be on the verge of stabilizing the marketplace for the individual market.
Longer Short-Term Health Plans Could Be Coming To Kentucky (WFPL)
August 21, 2018
On a website, Dania Palanker plugged in her age and location. Of the results, Palanker said one of the plans costs $393 a month, which she said is much cheaper than she could get on an Obamacare exchange. “But then I started looking at the details,” she said.
Are You Self-Employed? Your Health Insurance Options Are Likely to Expand Soon (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
August 17, 2018
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce plans to offer health plans solely for its members. Wisconsin Property Taxpayers Inc. may do the same. So, too, may other organizations.