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The High Cost of Gender Rating

What could explain a health insurance company charging one 25-year-old nearly double what another pays for the same coverage? No, it's not a pre-existing condition or chronic illness. It's gender....

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This blog is cross-posted from the Department of Health and Human Services. By Mayra Alvarez, HHS Director of Public Health Policy Posted April 06, 2012 April is National Minority Health Month...

Obamacare Would Make Insurance Companies Give Consumers Their $2 billion Back

A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund predicts that, if the Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of the Affordable Care Act had gone into effect in 2010, consumers would have gotten $2 billion ba...

Treating a Nationwide Toothache

It's a problem that we don't think about a lot-but it's very important. Many kids and families are not getting the routine dental care they need. There are many possible reasons for this, including th...

Promoting the Health Care Law Today because Health Equity Can’t Wait

Families USA is proudly taking part in the Health Equity Can't Wait! blog carnival celebrating National Minority Health Month. Participating bloggers are health, consumer, civil rights, and provider a...

Health Equity Can’t Wait Because Millions of Lives Are on the Line

What’s Missing from the Court Coverage and What to Do about It

There's been no shortage of analysis about the Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. A lot of it has focused on the politics and tea-leaf reading: How will the J...

House Republicans Continue to Target Health Care for Cuts

Sadly, Republicans continue to use the federal deficit as an excuse to gut the nation's health care safety net. We've already looked at the extreme proposals in the House Budgetand at last week's at...

GOP Would Have Us Choose: Student Aid or Health Care for Families

What do the national smoking cessation hotline, fresh vegetables for low-income urban neighborhoods, vaccinations for kids without insurance, and new residency positions for badly needed primary care ...

The Affordable Care Act gives you health care or your money back!

The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, health insurance companies will send $1.3 billion dollars in rebates to consumers and small and large businesses this ...