ACA

What the Texas v. Azar Ruling Means for the ACA and Health Coverage

December 18, 2018

Billy Wynne, Dawn Joyce

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

A federal judge declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Now what?

ACA Reduces Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Coverage Rates in California

Coverage Trends

New data from the California Health Insurance Survey show that coverage in California remained stable in 2016–17. Of particular note is how the Affordable Care Act has narrowed disparities in coverage between different racial and ethnic groups.

What to Know About the Justice Department’s Latest Whack at the ACA

Expanding Health Coverage, Payment & Financing

The Affordable Care Act wars have reignited, thanks to a surprising assault on the law's popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Eliminating the ACA’s Individual Mandate: How Would California Fare?

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

The federal tax law of 2017 eliminates, beginning in 2019, the ACA's financial penalty for not having health insurance. This paper describes how ACA provisions promote enrollment, the potential impact of the elimination of the penalty, and why California may wish to impose a state-based penalty.

Coverage, Access, and Affordability in California: Key ACA Data 2013-2016

Expanding Health Coverage, Health Care Costs

In 2014, CHCF launched ACA 411, an interactive online tool that helped users track the ACA's impact on California. While we no longer maintain the tool, the data and resources that were used to build it remain available here.

ACA Cost-Sharing Reductions Help Low-Income Working Families

August 22, 2017

Coverage Trends

With the heightened focus on the monthly Trump administration decisions on cost-sharing reductions for Affordable Care Act plans, a CHCF expert explains the stakes for California.

California Health Insurers Hold on to Previous ACA Gains

Katherine Wilson

Medi-Cal, Coverage Trends

Health insurance enrollment was stable in 2016, a sign of maturity and equilibrium after the sweeping changes brought about by the ACA in the two previous years.

Poll Reveals Californians’ Views on ACA, Medi-Cal, and Insurance for Behavioral Health Treatment

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

A statewide Berkeley IGS poll shows that support for the ACA is at an all-time high, and there is strong bipartisan agreement on the importance of Medi-Cal to California.

ACA’s Impact: Fewer Uninsured in Most Congressional Districts

With the intensifying debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act, this timely analysis provides data about changes in the uninsured population between 2013 and 2015 by congressional district.

High-Burden Health Spending Declined Among Individual-Market Participants and Medicare Beneficiaries Under the ACA

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal

Californians in Individual Market Spent $2,500 Less on Care in 2015 Than Before the ACA

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

Congressional leaders and the Trump administration are discussing eliminating ACA premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions — a move that would hit California hard.

Celebrate the Survival of the ACA’s Principles, But Remain on Guard

Sandra R. Hernández

Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

The bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was abandoned last week, but CHCF will be vigilant and on alert as forces continue trying to roll back the gains California achieved under the law.

ACA Repeal Bill Is Cruel Medicine

Sandra R. Hernández

Expanding Health Coverage, Medi-Cal

Last week, the House bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) emerged from the shadows into the glare of public scrutiny, and it wasn't a pretty sight.

‘The ACA Allowed Me to Pursue My American Dream’

Anne Sunderland

Coverage Trends, Medi-Cal

With the Obamacare repeal debate in full swing in Congress, it's important to remember how the law changed millions of Californians' lives for the better. Here are the stories of three of them.

ACA Repeal Resource: California’s Individual Market Before Health Reform

Expanding Health Coverage, Coverage Trends

This overview describes California's individual market before the Affordable Care Act and identifies potential concerns if the ACA is repealed.