This year, insurers are setting their rates for 2026 while Congress and the administration weigh several policies that are projected to cause premiums to spike and the number of people with Marketplac...

The House of Representatives passed, and the Senate is now negotiating, a budget reconciliation bill that would impose federal funding cuts on Medicaid and the ACA Marketplaces.

An obscure provision in the U.S. House reconciliation bill could have major consequences for the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces. In a guest post for CHIRblog, the Urban Institute's Jason Levitis and...

The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take up legislation that, if enacted, would be tantamount to a repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for millions of Americans who will lose their heal...

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

Research FellowThe Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy is seeking a Research Fellow to support projects focused on health insurance a...

Protecting Access to Preventive Services: A State Roadmap

On March 23, 2025, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In this post, CHIR experts reflect on how the law's reforms affected people's access to affordable, high quality...

The rule is like “making people crawl through broken glass” for health insurance, one expert said.

IntroductionToday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the “Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule” that proposes standards for the Health Insurance Marketplaces, ...

The proposal also would reverse a Biden administration policy that allowed “Dreamers” — immigrants in the country illegally who were brought here as children — from qualifying for subsidized ACA cover...

IntroductionToday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the “Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule” that proposes standards for the Health Insurance Marketplaces, ...

Policymakers can strengthen oversight of entities involved in selling coverage to address fraud and ensure integrity in the ACA marketplaces.

Massachusetts has recently enacted a law to increase transparency and oversight of private equity in healthcare following the collapse of Steward Health Care, which exposed risks from private equity p...

As the federal budget reconciliation process heats up, Congressional committees will soon be drafting legislation that spells out the program cuts Congress will need to offset the cost of extending ex...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced a reduction in funding for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Navigator program to $10 million. The savings from this reduction will allow...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Research Fellow The Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy is seeking a Research Fellow to support projects focused on health care polic...

House Republicans are considering resurrecting a 2017 proposal that would raise taxes for people who buy their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, as part of their...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Protecting Access to Preventive Services: A State Roadmap

Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending growth in their state employee health plans. Officials in those states note...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Oklahoma and South Carolina are among nine states that use some form of provider-based reference pricing to contain spending growth in their state employee health plans. Officials in those states note...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

Bankruptcy comes days after scathing Senate report on private equity impact on hospitals.

Health care is big business and is getting bigger. In recent years, health care mergers and acquisitions have ramped up, more corporate entities have entered the market, and maximizing profit has rise...

The United States has a patchwork system of health insurance coverage, in which people’s access to services and level of financial protection. To help journalists cut through the confusion, explore pr...

Georgetown University comprises two unique campuses in the nation’s capital. With the Hilltop Campus located in the heart of the historic Georgetown neighborhood, and the Capitol Campus, just minutes ...

Mounting public anger over health insurance is leading more state legislatures to eye reforms when they convene later this month.

With the growing body of medical evidence linking alcohol use to cancer and other deadly diseases, could heath insurers charge drinkers more?

Of these consumers, two million are new to HealthCare.gov coverage. And there is still time to sign up at HealthCare.gov for coverage beginning February 1.

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A new proposal in New York State seeks to reduce rising outpatient care costs by implementing site-neutral payment, which would require insurers to pay the same rate for services regardless of where t...

The United States is assessing what's next for Syria after 13 years of civil war came to an abrupt end this weekend when Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus, ending the repressive 50-year rule of the Assad family. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia. Security analyst Jim Walsh talks about what lies ahead for Syria, the Middle East and United States foreign policy. Then, President-elect Trump's pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, lists officials in his 2023 book that he calls "members of the executive branch deep state." Trump has called it a blueprint "to help us take back the White House and remove these gangsters from all of government!" Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa joins us. And, police on Monday arrested a person of interest in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The New York Police Department says investigators found a document on Luigi Mangione that indicates "ill will toward corporate America." The killing of Thompson is raising fresh questions about what many people regard as a broken U.S. health care system. We speak with Georgetown University's Sabrina Corlette.