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Paid Leave Helps Americans Keep Their Health Insurance When They Need It Most ReportDecember 16, 2024 Paid Leave Helps Americans Keep Their Health Insurance When They Need It Most Through dedicated protections and continuation of income, workplace leave laws can allow workers to keep their health insurance coverage at crucial moments. Dec 16, 2024 Molly Weston Williamson
Policies To Combat Anticompetitive Practices in Health Care ReportDecember 11, 2024 Policies To Combat Anticompetitive Practices in Health Care Using their market power, health care providers and payers often leverage anticompetitive contracting terms to maximize profit at the expense of patient access and affordability. Dec 11, 2024 Nicole Rapfogel, Marquisha Johns
Progressive Principles for the 2025 Tax Debate: Having No Deal Is Better Than Having a Bad Deal ReportDecember 9, 2024 Progressive Principles for the 2025 Tax Debate: Having No Deal Is Better Than Having a Bad Deal Facing the $4 trillion expiration of the Trump tax cuts next year, Congress must not greenlight a tax deal that will worsen income inequality and lose revenue. Dec 9, 2024 Brendan Duke, Bobby Kogan, Jessica Vela
Trends and Consequences in Health Insurer Consolidation ReportDecember 4, 2024 Trends and Consequences in Health Insurer Consolidation Increasing levels of consolidation among private payers, driven by vertical integration and market specialization, are undermining competition and fueling higher health care costs. Dec 4, 2024 Natasha Murphy
Transgender Medical Care: What You Should Know and How To Preserve Access to Care ReportDecember 2, 2024 Transgender Medical Care: What You Should Know and How To Preserve Access to Care Transgender medical care is safe, effective, lifesaving—but access to it is under attack. Dec 2, 2024 Cait Smith, Haley Norris
What To Know Ahead of 2025 Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment Fact SheetOctober 30, 2024 What To Know Ahead of 2025 Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment ACA marketplace open enrollment begins on November 1, and millions of Americans will benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act’s enhanced tax credits. Oct 30, 2024 Natasha Murphy
Fact Sheet: How Enhanced Premium Tax Credits for Affordable Health Care Empower Self-Employed Americans Fact SheetOctober 28, 2024 Fact Sheet: How Enhanced Premium Tax Credits for Affordable Health Care Empower Self-Employed Americans Without congressional action to extend enhanced tax credits beyond 2025, self-employed workers will face reduced access to affordable and comprehensive coverage. Oct 28, 2024 Natasha Murphy
The Top 5 Ways Project 2025 Would Hurt Disabled People ReportOctober 28, 2024 The Top 5 Ways Project 2025 Would Hurt Disabled People Project 2025 would directly harm disabled people by removing basic civil rights protections and making it harder for these individuals to access necessary resources and services. Oct 28, 2024 Mia Ives-Rublee, Casey Doherty
Opinion: Medicare or Medicare Advantage? One of them doesn’t give you what you pay for. In the NewsOctober 25, 2024 Opinion: Medicare or Medicare Advantage? One of them doesn’t give you what you pay for. In an article for MarketWatch, Andrea Ducas and David Lipschutz explain how privatized Medicare fails to deliver for vulnerable Americans and what policymakers can do to level the playing field. Oct 25, 2024 MarketWatch Andrea Ducas, David Lipschutz
5 Ways Project 2025 Puts Profits Over Patients ArticleSeptember 4, 2024 5 Ways Project 2025 Puts Profits Over Patients Project 2025’s agenda to put profits ahead of patients would hurt American consumers for decades to come. Sep 4, 2024 Nicole Rapfogel, Jill Rosenthal, Marquisha Johns, 2 More Brian Keyser, Andrea Ducas
Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Veterans ArticleAugust 22, 2024 Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Veterans The new authoritarian playbook would devastate veterans in many ways. Aug 22, 2024 Colin Seeberger