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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

The Doctors Who Hate Insurance So Much They Go Without It (Bloomberg)
May 15, 2018
As an E.R. doctor in New Orleans, Brian Falkner attends to the kind of gruesome medical cases that would seem to underscore the importance of health insurance. And yet he doesn’t have any. Nor, for that matter, do his wife or 9-year-old daughter.
Consumers Brace For Premium Hikes While Lawmakers Grasp At Remedies (Kaiser Health News)
May 11, 2018
As some insurers angle for hefty premium hikes and concerns grow that more Americans will wind up uninsured, the federal health law is likely — once again — to play big in both parties’ strategies for the contentious 2018 election.
As Other States Have Abandoned Efforts, New Jersey Passes Individual Mandate (Governing)
May 9, 2018
In February, The Wall Street Journal reported that, in light of the federal repeal of the individual mandate, nine states and the District of Columbia were looking into implementing their own mandates. Just three months later, such talk has all but disappeared. As states wrap up their legislative sessions, only New Jersey has passed a bill mandating residents to have health insurance coverage.
Farm Bill Could Undo Part Of The Affordable Care Act (NPR)
May 8, 2018
Although the GOP repeal-and-replace mantra seems to have quieted, some Republican lawmakers continue efforts to get around the sweeping federal health law's requirements. Sometimes that happens in surprising places. Like the farm bill.