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Why Long-Term Care Insurance Falls Short for So Many 

For 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance allows her to stay in her Sacramento, California, bungalow, near the friends and neighbors she loves. Her family pays $4,000 a month for that. 

“We want her to stay in her house,” Jemmott said. “That’s what’s probably keeping her alive, because she’s in her element, not in a strange place.” 

The private insurance market has proved wildly inadequate in providing financial security for most of the millions of

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by Alisha Putri•
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Trump on the ACA: Donald Trump Wants to “Totally Kill” Access to Affordable Health Care

In response to Donald Trump’s calls to “totally kill” the Affordable Care Act, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:

“There’s no question that Donald Trump is serious about wanting to ‘totally kill’ the Affordable Care Act — just take a look at the last time he was in office. Not only did Trump repeatedly try to kill the law in Congress, but he also signed an executive order to stall ACA implementation, suspended a program to help stabilize insurance markets, and slashed funding designed to help people sign up for health care. Trump has made

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Anthem insurance and Mercy Hospital’s parent company in contract dispute – The Durango Herald

If differences cannot be resolved by May 1, patients may be forced to find new doctors

Thousands of patients across the state, including in Southwest Colorado, could be forced to switch doctors or face out-of-network charges for care if CommonSpirit Health and Anthem do not reach a contract deal by May 1. (Brandon Mathis/Special to the Herald)

About 35,000 patients with Anthem health insurance could face out-of-network charges for care they receive at 11 CommonSpirit hospitals – including Mercy Hospital – and dozens of clinics and practices across the state if the two parties cannot agree on a new contract

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How Many Uninsured Are in the Coverage Gap and How Many Could be Eligible if All States Adopted the Medicaid Expansion?

Ten years after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage options, ten states have not adopted the Medicaid expansion, leaving 1.5 million uninsured people without an affordable coverage option. The unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision along with ongoing financial struggles among rural hospitals has focused attention on the gaps in Medicaid coverage in non-expansion states, and the availability of temporary enhanced federal funding for states that newly adopted expansion has sparked renewed expansion discussions in some of these states.

Two states (South Dakota and North Carolina) implemented Medicaid expansion in 2023, reducing the number of low-income

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by Alisha Putri•