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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

“It’s not health insurance. It’s bankruptcy insurance.” photo

“It’s not health insurance. It’s bankruptcy insurance.”

June 17, 2013 – I was approaching 60 years of age; I had exhausted my savings to pay for a private health insurance policy that was no longer financially…

Medicare fraud and for-profit hospitals photo

Medicare fraud and for-profit hospitals

June 13, 2013 – Update: Sure enough, HMA CEO Gary Newsome has announced that he will be retiring July 1. Newsome, 55, said in a news release that he is…

Cost and coverage of the Affordable Care Act

June 4, 2013 – The video here is of my comments at the Center for Health Administration Studies' 50th Anniversary celebration. It covers why I am so proud…

Obamacare giveth. Employers taketh away? photo

Obamacare giveth. Employers taketh away?

May 31, 2013 – You gotta wonder how some people in the health insurance business sleep at night. Oh wait. You can’t sleep if you stay up late thinking…

Projections evidence ‘rate shock is a crock’ photo

Projections evidence ‘rate shock is a crock’

May 28, 2013 – Critics of Obamacare who warned us that health reform would result in "rate shock" haven't had much to say lately thanks to surprisingly…

Who will sell health insurance in the exchanges? Non-profit insurers. photo

Who will sell health insurance in the exchanges? Non-profit insurers.

May 25, 2013 – There won't be enough insurance offerings, the critics claim, to create competition in the marketplaces where small business owners and…

The ACA and mental health coverage photo

The ACA and mental health coverage

May 17, 2013 – Perhaps the most under-covered aspect of health reform is its dramatic expansion of coverage for the treatment of psychiatric and substance…

No shortage of insurance ‘flavors’ ahead photo

No shortage of insurance ‘flavors’ ahead

May 7, 2013 – Industry insider Wendell Potter says consumers shouldn't fall for headlines predicting that insurance carriers will offer few plan options…

Medicare Advantage – or DISAdvantage? photo

Medicare Advantage – or DISAdvantage?

April 18, 2013 – Wendell Potter says he believes his mother is alive today because she was disenrolled from a Medicare Advantage plan that wouldn't have…

26 million eligible for help paying premiums photo

26 million eligible for help paying premiums

April 18, 2013 – We at Families USA estimate that nearly 26 million Americans will be eligible for premium tax credits to help make health coverage…

A helping hand for Rep. Marsha Blackburn photo

A helping hand for Rep. Marsha Blackburn

March 28, 2013 – In fact, one of the real objectives of the “Time for Affordability” PR and advertising campaign the insurance industry is waging is to…

Title of Congressional hearing said it all:

March 19, 2013 – I was stunned when Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), accused me of being disingenuous because I told the story of a Florida woman who might be…