#Affordable Care Act

Latest Effort to Discriminate Against People With Preexisting Conditions

People without insurance will need to either pay full price, seek free or low-cost vaccines from community clinics or go without.

Plus: Over 10 prevention services related to hepatitis, HIV and sexually transmitted infections covered by the Affordable Care Act.

The ruling centered on PrEP as HIV prevention but could apply to cancer screenings and other services and drugs.

A federal lawsuit heard last month could upend or even eliminate the preventive care requirement in the law, known as Obamacare or the ACA.

Some 100 million people—including 41% of U.S. adults—have health care debt, according to a recent KFF survey.

The burden is forcing families to cut spending on food and other essentials. Millions are being driven from their homes or into bankruptcy.

The United States might see one of the steepest increases in the country’s uninsured rate in years.

Plus: The White House moves to ensure that future ACA health plans cost less, protect those with chronic illness and don’t discriminate.

In January, Biden opened this enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act. Plus: Those with a health plan can change their coverage.

Oklahoma ranks third in the nation for hepatitis C deaths, and the virus is mostly transmitted through injection drug use.

The Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Care Act for a third time. Here’s a look at responses from health care advocates.

A letter from 124 patient groups urges the White House to make drugs more affordable—and spells out how it can do so.

Cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s would be the initial focus for the proposed agency within the National Institutes of Health.

A new legal challenge seeks to end the requirement that most Americans must receive preventive services like mammograms free of charge.

Biden extends the health insurance enrollment period, while his COVID-19 stimulus plan makes massive changes to the Affordable Care Act.