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What are the deadlines for the ACA’s open enrollment period?
A list of the open enrollment deadlines for enrollment in 2023 ACA-compliant health insurance in every state. Open enrollment ended on January 15, 2023 in most states.

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Applying for ACA Coverage?
Understanding how small differences in projected income can have a large impact on your health plan costs can be key to obtaining affordable coverage.

Expert analysis of health reform issues

Obamacare: A Stepping Stone? photo

Obamacare: A Stepping Stone?

November 9, 2015 – The following guest post is from Simon F. Haeder, the winner of healthinsurance.org's 2014 Health Wonk Scholarship. Haeder is a Ph.D.…

Is CarsonCare really ‘out of the box’? photo

Is CarsonCare really ‘out of the box’?

October 28, 2015 – If President Carson would somehow be able to persuade Congress – even a GOP-controlled Congress – to go along with his HSA-for-all…

Pre-existing conditions? ‘No such thing’ photo

Pre-existing conditions? ‘No such thing’

October 23, 2015 – Patrick Carr went an awfully long time without health insurance. For someone living with two chronic health conditions — asthma and high…

Prediction: QHP enrollment will swell by 25 percent photo

Prediction: QHP enrollment will swell by 25 percent

October 15, 2015 – Before I go any further, let me say this flat out: No. Actual exchange enrollments in 2016 are not going to reach the CBO's 21 million…

How health policy should hijack tonight’s debate photo

How health policy should hijack tonight’s debate

October 13, 2015 – In my role as self-appointed moderator of tonight's Democratic presidential debate, I and a few of my friends have some questions about my…

When ACA’s Silver beats employer-sponsored plans photo

When ACA’s Silver beats employer-sponsored plans

October 7, 2015 – Most holders of Silver plans purchased in the ACA's marketplaces have more comprehensive overall coverage than most people with…

The ‘casino effect’ on your health insurance rates photo

The ‘casino effect’ on your health insurance rates

October 6, 2015 – There are several reasons for the wide variation in 2016 individual health insurance rates across the country, but there is one thing that…

Millions get by on $2 a day. Can Medicaid help? photo

Millions get by on $2 a day. Can Medicaid help?

September 25, 2015 – In this edition, I'm talking with the University of Michigan’s H. Luke Shaefer, co-author of the important new book, $2.00 a Day: Living…

So many coverage options, so much ACA hate photo

So many coverage options, so much ACA hate

September 15, 2015 – Just how much would the 2016 GOP clown car have to pay if they "had" to enroll in an ACA-compliant, private individual policy, instead of…

What’s Leon Panetta going to do about Blue Shield? photo

What’s Leon Panetta going to do about Blue Shield?

September 14, 2015 – When former defense secretary Leon Panetta joined the board of directors of Blue Shield of California, he explained: “I have chosen to…

WalkerCare gives women reasons to worry again photo

WalkerCare gives women reasons to worry again

August 23, 2015 – The “open market” Walker would establish would be the kind of health insurance market that existed before Obamacare. There would be no…

Why pre-existing conditions mattered … to millions photo

Why pre-existing conditions mattered … to millions

August 19, 2015 – If GOP lawmakers were able to repeal Obamacare, their constituents ... the people who voted them into office ... would be among the biggest…