Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act requires most insurers to cover a comprehensive list of FDA-approved birth control methods at no cost. But insurers often make it hard for women to get the products they want.

The average premium through the ACA marketplace reportedly fell 25% in April due to tax subsidies in the American Rescue Plan. Meantime, Florida's Medicaid enrollment continued to climb in June.

They don't qualify for Medicaid in their states, but earn too little to be eligible for subsidized ACA health plans. It's a gap in health care coverage, and some politicians are trying to fix it.

Attorney General Ashley Moody says her office respects “the ruling and authority of the court” but defended her involvement in the suit, saying “my office will always push back on any federal overreach."

The 7-2 decision threw out the challenge to the law on grounds that Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision.

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says she'll focus her time in charge on getting more Americans insured.

Biden said the country has made “enormous progress in expanding access to health insurance” through the six-month enrollment period, which closes Aug. 15.

WMFE's Abe Aboraya, Robin Rudowitz (Kaiser Family Foundation), Miriam Harmatz (Florida Health Justice Project) and Anne Swerlick (Florida Policy Institute) offer their insight on "Intersection."

More than 500,000 people nationally have signed up for Obamacare through March 31 since the special enrollment period began. Of those, more than 146,000 were in Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted calls to expand Florida’s Medicaid eligibility, saying it would be too costly in future years.