Washington’s Medicaid program is called Apple Health. The state offers Apple Health to adults and children through separate programs. The income limits for children are higher than those for adults. Children enrolled in Apple Health can also qualify for different tiers if their families have higher...
Ironically, neither vice presidential candidate mentioned the biggest threat facing the ACA’s insurance expansion under the Biden/Harris administration. The 2021 American Rescue Plan Act and Inflation Reduction Act lowered the percentage of income a person had to pay for silver plans on the exchanges...
“I was completely surprised by the number itself,” she wrote. “Although when I think back on cases we have handled, I have found that some clients who I thought would have exceeded the salary limits, in fact, did not. That’s why I always recommend asking the question before making ...
the government had imposed a new payroll tax that by now was extracting almost one out of every five dollars earned by middle- and working-class Americans. Does it seem reasonable to suppose that the loss of that much discretionary income would have caused a lot of people to take on a lot...
About this time last year, with the White House about to release a new budget, the press was filled with stories about President Obama being a tough-minded budget cutter. Once the budget was released, I looked at the real numbers and explained how the bu