Health Policy Pride: An Overview of Private Coverage Issues Impacting the LGBTQ+ Community
Happy Pride Month from CHIR! Each June, Pride is an opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community an...
Posts tagged with: preventive services
Blog Posts:
Preserving the ACA’s Preventive Services Protections in the Wake of Braidwood v. Becerra: A Checklist of State Options
On May 15, 2023, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily paused the Braidwood v. Becerra ruling...
Searching for a New Normal: How Expiration of the Federal Public Health Emergency Impacts Access to Health Care Services
After more than three years, the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) is set to expire on ...
A World Without The ACA’s Preventive Services Protections: The Impact Of The Braidwood Decision
The U.S. Department of Justice has requested that a Texas district court suspend its decision to str...
Coverage of Preventive Services Without Cost Sharing in Jeopardy as Texas Court Strikes Down ACA Protection
At the end of March, a federal judge in Texas partially invalidated one of the ACA’s most popular ...
The ACA’s Preventive Services Benefit Is in Jeopardy: What Can States Do to Preserve Access?
A federal judge is poised to gut one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act’s (...
Federal Court Decision Threatens the ACA’s Preventive Services Benefit: State Options to Mitigate Harm to Consumers
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that Affordable Care Act requirements that insurers cover and wai...
From Cancer Screenings to Prenatal Care, the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Threatens Availability of Free Preventive Services
The ACA requires that most insurers and employers cover a set of preventive health services at no co...
Updated Breast Pump Coverage Guidelines Provide Important Protections for Families but More Guidance May Be Needed to Increase Access
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends feeding infants breastmilk through their first year. O...
PrEP Coverage Obstacles Highlight Challenges Implementing the ACA Preventive Services Requirement
The ACA requires coverage of recommended preventive services without cost-sharing for consumers enro...
Out of the Fire and Back in Federal Court: This Mother’s Day, Another Challenge to the ACA Puts Access to Preventive Services at Risk
This Mother’s Day, CHIR's Rachel Schwab and Nia Gooding assessed the potential impact of a new leg...
The COVID-19 Vaccine is Coming, but Will it Be Paid For? Federal and State Policies to Fill Gaps in Insurance Coverage
Vaccinations against COVID-19 are on their way. For consumers in Affordable Care Act plans, immuniza...
Ensuring Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine for Enrollees in Private Health Insurance: A Roadmap for States
States and the federal government are preparing for the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine. But just as ...
November Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
This November, we at CHIR celebrated Thanksgiving with a Research Buffet. CHIR's Olivia Hoppe digs i...
CHIR Holds Navigator Twitter Q&A: Top 5 Questions
The Center on Health Insurance Reforms held its first-ever Tweetchat in light of the release of our ...
A Mother’s Day Gift Basket from Congress and the Trump Administration
This Mother’s Day, both Congress and the Trump administration have put together a special gift bas...
Trump’s New Rule on Birth Control is Basically Discrimination Against Women
The Trump administration recently released regulations allowing employers, colleges, and universitie...
Graham-Cassidy 2.0: Taking Insurance Protections Out of the Individual Market
Another day, another version of the Graham-Cassidy bill. This new version makes numerous technical c...
Get Health Insurance Through Your Employer? ACA Repeal Will Affect You, Too
Job-based plans cover 150 million people in the U.S. If the ACA is repealed, they stand to lose crit...
A Lot to Lose: What’s on the Line for Women if the Affordable Care Act is Repealed
It’s the holiday season, but rather than visions of sugar plums dancing above our heads, we have v...
Health Plan Restrictions on Contraceptive Coverage: It’s like asking people to “renew their seat belt each month”
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has lowered financial barriers to birth control by requiring health pl...
New Guidance Clarifying Preventive Services under the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act requires most health plans to cover preventive services without cost sharing...
New Report Finds Patients Pay for Confusion Over Colonoscopy Screening
Today, the Kaiser Family Foundation—in partnership with CHIR, the American Cancer Society, and the...