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The excise tax will be levied on health insurance plans聽costing聽more than $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for a family. Any value over those thresholds will be taxed at 40 percent, and that's likely to affect consumers' benefits, share of health care costs or their coverage entirely.
A surge in Medicaid enrollment drove down the uninsured rate in Colorado from 15.8 percent to 6.7 percent.
Consumers must enroll in a silver-level plan in order to be eligible for reductions in out-of-pocket spending.
The California Health Interview Survey shows significant gains in insurance coverage but also points to disparities among ethnic groups.聽
The Obama administration has announced a change in how the out-of-pocket health spending limits will be calculated for families, but employers object that it will leave them holding the bill.
California regulators have tried harder than most to make mental health parity laws work but it鈥檚 been tough to enforce the rules and gain the cooperation of insurers.
Consumers will have a choice of some plans that allow them to cross state lines for care, and every county will have at least three insurance companies offering plans on Covered California.
KHN consumer columnist Michelle Andrews also answers reader questions about how insurance-provider networks function and parents鈥 responsibility to provide coverage for children who are not yet 26.
The fines, in their fourth year, are assessed on hospitals that have patients frequently return and will cost nearly 2,600 hospitals $420 million in total.
Formerly uninsured California residents no longer rank paying for health care as their primary financial concern. But some still see cost and access to care as a problem.
Premiums for the state鈥檚 1.3 million people in the state's Obamacare marketplace will rise an average 4 percent, with average increases as low as 1.8 percent in Los Angeles and as high as 13 percent in Santa Cruz.
An ambitious demonstration to transform clinics into 鈥渕edical homes鈥 treating patients in the community instead of the hospital didn鈥檛 save money. Some blame the test, not the idea.
Healthcare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan is urging state insurance commissioners to look carefully at proposed rate hikes for insurance premiums in 2016.
Advocates say that enrollees get turned down for coverage of some services that are tied to gender.
New data also break down billions in subsidy payments.
Only 10,700 employers nationwide have enrolled their workers in coverage through the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP exchanges.
The health law requires insurers to cover most prescription contraceptives with no additional out-of-pocket costs, which may spur some women to use more effective methods.
With the Supreme Court decision, it appears the Affordable Care Act will stand, but that doesn't mean the law's troubles are over. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to KHN's Julie Rovner.
In a visit to Nashville, Tenn., the president calls for health law critics to drop their opposition and begin the work of improving the law and health care delivery.
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