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Providers, researchers, hospital leaders are expected to use the reports to help raise awareness on health disparities, develop interventions.
Without the cost-sharing reduction payments that allow insurers to lower deductibles, premiums in silver plans could jump by 19 percent, study says.
Researchers concluded that when states expanded eligibility they saw larger health care expenditures covered by federal funding.
Making the programs voluntary would send a damaging signal to the healthcare industry about CMS' ability to carry out mandatory demonstrations.
Harvard economist Katherine Baicker discusses the complex question of Medicaid expansion at the HIMSS Pop Health Forum.
Gallup says difference this year has to do with consumers' uncertainty over getting coverage through the ACA.
Many cited efficiency as a main reason for their stance, saying it's often a hassle to work with many different insurance companies.
By many accounts, loss of subsidies would wreck the market if successful, stranding up to 12 million without coverage.
If coverage of the low spenders declines, insurers' ability to offer affordable coverage to high spenders with greater need will also decline.
Efforts to gain votes from holdout conservatives repelled moderate Republicans in House; placating moderates kept conservatives from signing on.