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July 2025

A silver salve for the expiration of enhanced ACA marketplace subsidies
Mitigation, the game we have to play
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Andrew Sprung
Blue-state AGs sue to void Trump administration orders barring millions of immigrants from "vital community programs"
Suit alleges orders are arbitrary and capricious, coercive, and unconstitutional
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The Trump admin's new assault on the few benefits available to non-qualified immigrants
For RFK Jr. and Pam Bondi, deterring "illegal immigration" trumps all other public policy goals
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Andrew Sprung
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OBBBA mitigations, Part 1: minimizing harm from work reporting requirements
The enactment of the Republicans’ monstrous budget bill in one sense sets politics and policy at odds, at least for Democrats.
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Andrew Sprung

June 2025

Republican Medicaid cuts mostly target the ACA Medicaid expansion
Republican legislators who wrote the Medicaid provisions of their monstrous megabill are acting on a simple belief: low-income nonelderly adults who…
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Lies my Republican congressman told me about their cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare
Third and probably last in a series at nj.com.
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Republicans' Radical Reactionary Redemption bill
It's always back to the future with them...
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Halving the ACA's progress toward universal health coverage
More than halving, actually
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Andrew Sprung
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May 2025

The Republican assault on health coverage for immigrants
The legislative aggression goes beyond barring coverage for the undocumented
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Andrew Sprung
Back to the future: A window on the ACA's off-exchange market
In the ARPA enhanced subsidy era, off-exchange enrollment in New Jersey dropped 30%
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Republicans aim a double-barreled out-of-pocket cost blast at the not-quite poor
In both Medicaid and the ACA marketplace, enrollees with income modestly above 100% FPL will see costs increase
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