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The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a hot political topic. Learn more about its benefits, how you can seek them, and what's important to know if you are covered under the ACA.
COVID-Related Special Enrollment Period for 2021 Health Insurance
By Louise Norris
How Does Your Age Affect Your Health Insurance Premium?
Medically reviewed by Elizabeth Molina Ortiz, MD, MPH
What Are Idaho's Enhanced Short-Term Health Plans?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
1332 Waivers Give States Flexibility in Health Care Reform
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
What Is a Basic Health Program?
Fact checked by James Lacy
How Will Getting Married Affect Your Premium Tax Credit?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
Expanded Bronze Plans: What They Are and How They Work
Fact checked by James Lacy
How Cost-Sharing Reductions Make Health Care More Affordable
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
Understanding the Lawsuit That Could Overturn the ACA
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
Can Premium Subsidies Be Used to Pay for Dental Insurance?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
What Is the ACA's Subsidy Cliff and Why Does It Matter?
Fact checked by James Lacy
What Is Off-Exchange Health Insurance?
By Louise Norris
What Is a Grandfathered Health Plan?
Fact checked by Dale Brauner
What Is Minimum Essential Coverage?
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
Congress' Relationship With Obamacare
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
What Is the Medical Loss Ratio and Why Does It Matter?
Fact checked by James Lacy
How Do Immigrants Obtain Health Insurance Under the ACA?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
What Was the Goal of the ACA's Cadillac Tax and Why Was It Repealed?
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
10 Essential Health Benefits Under the ACA
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
What Are Standardized Health Insurance Plans?
Fact checked by James Lacy
What Is a Benchmark Plan Under the ACA?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
You Can Buy Short-Term Insurance in Most States. But Is It a Good Idea?
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
Is There Still a Penalty for Being Uninsured in 2021?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
Silver Loading and Your Health Insurance Premiums
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
The Affordable Care Act and Native Americans
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
No Asset Tests for ACA Subsidies
Fact checked by Dale Brauner
How Obamacare Changed Employer Health Insurance
Fact checked by Lisa Sullivan, MS
Enrolling in Individual Health Insurance With a Qualifying Event
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Who Is Affected By the Affordable Care Act Family Glitch?
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
What is a Pre-Existing Condition Exclusion Period?
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Health Insurance Exemption Criteria
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
How to Get a Hardship Exemption So You Can Buy a Catastrophic Plan
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Obamacare vs. Job-Based Health Insurance
Fact checked by Lisa Sullivan, MS
Choosing a Bronze Health Insurance Plan
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Overview of the Premium Tax Credit
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
What Is a Shared Responsibility Payment?
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Understanding Platinum Plan Health Insurance
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Are Health Insurance Premiums Going Up or Down for 2021?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
What to Know About Gold Plan Health Insurance
Fact checked by Lisa Sullivan, MS
What Is a Health Insurance Exemption?
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Health Insurance: Understanding High Risk Pools
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Preventive Care: What's Free and What's Not
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Losing Health Insurance for Non-Payment of Premiums
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Late Paying an Obamacare Insurance Premium?
Fact checked by James Lacy
How COBRA Affects Obamacare Health Insurance Subsidy
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
What Is the Individual Mandate?
Fact checked by James Lacy
ACA Premium Subsidies Are a Tax Credit based on Income
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
When Care Is 'Excluded From the Deductible'
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
Healthcare Sharing Ministries: Read the Fine Print
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
How To Figure the Health Insurance Penalty for a Family
Fact checked by James Lacy
Understanding Mandated Health Insurance Benefits
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
Details of the ACA's Silver Plan
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
You Can't Wait Until You're Sick to Buy Insurance
Fact checked by James Lacy
The ACA Health Insurance Mandate
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
How To Apply for a Health Insurance Exemption
Fact checked by Lisa Sullivan, MS
Affordable Care Act - What You Should Know
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Health Reform and Dependent Coverage for Young Adults
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
What Is Reinsurance and Why Are States Pursuing It?
Fact checked by Lisa Sullivan, MS
The Medicaid Look Back Period and Nursing Home Care
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
Out-of-Pocket Maximums Tend to Increase Each Year
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig
7 Things to Know About Grandmothered Health Plans
Fact checked by Elaine Hinzey, RD
Caveats to Ban on Annual and Lifetime Benefit Maximums
Fact checked by James Lacy
Can You Go Without Health Insurance and Not Owe a Penalty?
Fact checked by Ashley Hall
5 Things to Know About Student Health Insurance
Fact checked by Sheeren Jegtvig