If there is something both sides of the political aisle can agree on, it’s that there is something deeply wrong with health insurance in the United States. What they can’t agree on is how to fix it.

Having stable health insurance helps people obtain the medical care they need when they need it. Being able to remain with the same health plan and providers also promotes continuity in relationships ...

The Affordable Care Act gives states the option of creating state-run public insurance — known as a Basic Health Program or Basic Health Plan — for low-income people who aren’t eligible for Medicaid ...

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores the issues surrounding the Basic Health Program, an option that states have under the Affordable Care Act ...

Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are good options for health insurance if you have a low income. In most states, you have to make less than $20,783 per year as a single ...

We are facing down the real fear that so many families will be going back to the bad-old days of emergency room care, which ...

New York state will end its Essential Plan health insurance program, which covers 1.7 million low- and middle-income New Yorkers, due to a loss of $7.5 billion in federal funding. The change, which is ...