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Health Care Coverage and Access

The gains in health care coverage and access to care made under the Affordable Care Act have fundamentally changed the health insurance system. But reaching the millions of adults who are still without coverage is one big remaining challenge. Another is ensuring that those who are insured can afford their health plans and their health care.

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Private Health Insurance Coverage in the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

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Michelle M. Doty

Munira Z. Gunja

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States Looking to Run Their Own Health Insurance Marketplace See Opportunity for Funding, Flexibility

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2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: Deaths from Suicide, Alcohol, Drugs on the Rise; Progress Expanding Health Care Coverage Stalls; Health Costs Are a Growing Burden

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