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Meet three people from the Bayou State who would likely lose their insurance and their newfound sense of financial stability if the Supreme Court rules subsidies illegal in the King v. Burwell case.
A stinging federal audit and complaints of long wait times give reluctant lawmakers a line of attack.
Kaiser Health News consumer columnist Michelle Andrews answers readers’ questions about cost and coverage.
Despite political opposition to the Affordable Care Act, more than 186,000 people in Louisiana signed up for health insurance through healthcare.gov. The vast majority of those received subsidies, which could be lost in the King v. Burwell case before the Supreme Court.
HHS auditors recommend Missouri repay more than $34 million to the federal government, but state officials dispute the findings.
A new coalition of insurers, pharmaceutical companies, and provider and consumer advocacy groups launched an initiative to make more information available to consumers about the actual costs of health services.
Almost 1 million New York City residents are still uninsured. Rather than go to emergency rooms or city hospitals, some of them get free care from medical school students.
Enrollment in private plans fell 2 percent in Washington state, but officials say the study doesn't take account of the fast-growing Medicaid numbers.
Primary care providers are teaming up with insurers, hospitals and others to improve patients’ health by coordinating their care and, the theory goes, curbing out-of-control health care costs.
Marketplaces face challenges ensuring that low-income customers continue to get coverage if their incomes change to put them above or below the Medicaid eligibility line.
While coverage that requires enrollees to have ‘skin in the game’ is supposed to spur smarter consumer choices, the costs can be staggering for some.
A Philadelphia-area caterer who had been uninsured for five years before the ACA frets about her future if the Supreme Court strikes down federal exchange subsidies.
As April 15 approaches, most of the consumers who didn't get insurance coverage face penalties while others who used federal subsidies to buy their plans must reconcile their actual earnings with the estimates that they made last year.
Except for a few insurers in Albany and the western part of the state, all the policies sold in the individual market are HMOs that will not pay anything toward routine expenses from doctors or hospitals not in their networks.
The percentage of people without health insurance has dropped about a third since 2012, to 13.2 percent, according to federal officials.
GOP lawmakers eager to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood are weighing changes to a cancer screening program for poor women. But private clinics unaffiliated with Planned Parenthood say they'd take a hit, too.
Report by Health Access California says 3 million uninsured in California have uneven access to care, depending on which county they live in.
Despite the Democrat's embrace of a work requirement for the first time, the plan got a hostile reaction from some GOP lawmakers.
Florida and Mississippi had the highest percentage of enrollees receiving a tax credit to help them pay premiums.
Justices to decide if subsidies that help millions afford health insurance are available to residents of more than three dozen states.
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