... to the premium subsidy schedule under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for health insurance plans purchased through an exchange. We find sizeable variability in premium-contribution requirements for children's coverage as a percentage of family income across the three states and in the progressivity and...

... evidence used by people operating within this realm of advocacy groups and other organizations when they make demands around public policy. This article explores the degree to which the extensive academic research on the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was employed in the advocacy campaign...

...Eric M. Patashnik; Jonathan Oberlander Abstract Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, conservatives have sought to undermine the law's entrenchment. While they have failed in their ambitious quest to repeal the ACA, opponents have succeeded in overturning one major provision...

...Jacob S. Hacker; Paul Pierson Abstract The 2017 GOP drive to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) arguably constituted the most ambitious effort to dismantle a social program in American history. Certainly it was the most ambitious to come so close to enactment, falling just three...

... (ACA) to consumers. Data from Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group were used to analyze advertising content during three ACA open enrollment periods (fall 2013 to spring 2016). Few advertisement airings featured people who were elderly, disabled, or receiving care in a medical setting, and over...

...Michael W. Sances; Joshua D. Clinton Abstract Context: The authors examined whether participation in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) differed by political partisanship. Answering this question is important for understanding how contentious elite-level decision making and discourse may affect policy...

...Colleen M. Grogan; David K. Jones; Julianna Pacheco Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Freely available online through the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law open access option. When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, there was a key role for states in...

...Julianna Pacheco; Elizabeth Maltby Abstract We consider two ways that public opinion influenced the diffusion of ACA policy choices from 2010 through 2014. First, we consider the policy feedback mechanism, which suggests that policy decisions have spillover effects that influence opinions in other...

...Andrew Karch; Aaron Rosenthal Abstract Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) sometimes speculate that public attitudes toward the law will shift if proponents succeed in focusing attention on its more popular components, but the scholarly literature on framing effects...

...Rena M. Conti; David K. Jones Abstract The ACA entails a number of provisions that are profoundly changing the way the states ensure access to medical care, including the expansion of Medicaid and the maintenance of health insurance exchanges. Here, we argue that while federal policy is the...

...Colleen M. Grogan Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 was full of surprising...

..., in January 2014. The purpose of the workshop was threefold: first, to increase communication and learning between state-level policy practitioners and health policy researchers; second, to address key ACA implementation issues that states are currently grappling with; and third, in response to these...

...Sarah E. Gollust; Colleen L. Barry; Jeff Niederdeppe; Laura Baum; Erika Franklin Fowler Abstract Many Americans will learn about the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) through the mass media. We examined geographic variation in the volume and content of mass...

...Heather Howard; Galen Benshoof Abstract In the federalist spirit of the rest of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), section 1332 of the law authorizes new optional waivers for state innovation. These waivers, 1332 waivers, as they have become known, offer states the flexibility to refashion their...

... access option. Affordable Care Act premiums self-employed Editor's Note: JHPPL has started an ACA Scholar-Practitioner Network (ASPN). The ASPN assembles people of different backgrounds (practitioners, stakeholders, and researchers) involved in state-level health reform implementation...

...Laura Katz Olson Abstract Medicaid is fundamental to near universal health insurance coverage under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). Its goal of broadening the program to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level was thwarted in 2012 by a Supreme Court...

...Figure 1 Health Equity under the ACA Figure 1. Health Equity under the ACA ...

... University Press 2016 ACA courts health law Today there can be little doubt, if there ever was, that courts exert an enormous impact on health policy. In the last four years, the Supreme Court alone has issued three major decisions concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA): National Federation...