Moving Backward
New estimates show that recent efforts to strike down the Affordable Care Act could leave millions of women and girls with preexisting conditions at risk of being charged more or denied coverage for individual insurance.
Affordable Care Act
State Health Policy Project
The Center for American Progress’ State Health Policy Project works with state governments to design and advance polices to lower health care costs and improve the quality of care.
Number of Americans With Preexisting Conditions by District for the 116th Congress
People with preexisting conditions would lose protections against discrimination by insurance companies under repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Rural Hospital Closures Reduce Access to Emergency Care
Rural hospitals struggle financially with lower patient volumes, higher rates of uncompensated care, and physician shortages.
Undermining Medicaid: How Block Grants Would Hurt Beneficiaries
After failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is trying to use block grants and per-capita caps to sabotage Medicaid.
How States Are Combating Trump’s ACA Sabotage
In the face of the Trump administration’s continual sabotage of the Affordable Care Act, several states have adopted innovative reforms to protect their residents’ health care.
Medicare Extra
Independent analysis finds the proposal would reduce national health spending relative to current law even after covering 35 million uninsured individuals.
Attack on the ACA
Insurance companies could save billions of dollars under the Trump administration’s proposed rule to undermine patient protections under the Affordable Care Act.
If the ACA Is Repealed Under Texas v. Azar, Millions Will Lose Health Insurance Coverage
An average of 45,600 people would lose coverage in each congressional district if the ACA were repealed.
CAP Ideas 2019: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Protecting Gains in Health Care
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries speaks at the 2019 CAP Ideas Conference about the new House’s agenda to lower prescription drug costs and fight against attempts to take away health care coverage.
Excess Administrative Costs Burden the U.S. Health Care System
Reforms to cut waste in health care financing would save billions of dollars annually.
Trump’s FY 2020 Budget Exposes His False Promises and Misplaced Priorities
Trump’s morally bankrupt budget betrays the “forgotten men and women” he pledged to fight for, seeking to pay for his $2 trillion tax giveaway with massive cuts to programs on which everyday Americans rely.
Conservatives Are Using the Courts to Attack Health Care for All Americans
Overturning the Affordable Care Act would negatively affect Medicare, Medicaid, employer coverage, and individual coverage.
13 Ways States Can Protect and Advance Women’s Health and Rights
As attacks to women’s health and rights ramp up on the federal level, states have an opportunity to advance progressive policies to protect women and their families.
Expanding Medicaid in All States Would Save 14,000 Lives Per Year
In addition to saving lives, expanding Medicaid would have wide-ranging benefits for residents of the 17 nonexpansion states—benefits that go far beyond boosting health insurance coverage and improving access to care.