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Nebraskans In The Coverage Gap: Jennifer fighting uphill battle after on-the-job injury

Health Care / By Nic Swiercek / 05/15/2018

No one should be devastated financially for suffering an on-the-job injury, but after Jennifer got hurt working in a hotel, she found that getting healthy enough to get back to work was harder than she ever could have imagined. The injury forced the Bellevue woman to lose her job, which made affording health coverage nearly […]

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Nebraskans In The Coverage Gap: Darrell Allen Roth

Health Care / By Nic Swiercek / 04/23/2018

Darrell Allen Roth, an Omaha native, is a familiar face in his neighborhood. Darrell has been working in the salvage business for over 20 years, and after learning the trade with a local company, he set out on his own in 2005. Since becoming self-employed, Darrell realized how expensive health insurance have gotten for those

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Nebraskans in the Coverage Gap: “Not having health insurance turns your life into a vicious cycle”

Health Care / By Nic Swiercek / 04/05/2018

Marea Bishop vowed not to let her health problems define her. But that didn’t mean the single mother from Bellevue was immune from the harsh effects of being unable to afford health coverage. Marea told her story in an Omaha World-Herald piece, laying out how chronic health problems chipped away at her ability to work

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Tax credits, rural customers increase in 2017-18 ACA enrollment

Health Care / By Eric Savaiano / 04/04/2018

On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final report for the 2018 Open Enrollment Period for the Health Insurance Marketplace. Overall, national enrollment of approximately 11.8 million Americans was just three percent below last year’s total. Clearly, there is strong demand for quality and affordable health insurance and the Affordable

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Letting Nebraskans choose a healthier future

Health Care / By Sierra Salgado Pirigyi / 03/09/2018

For the last six years, we’ve been fighting tooth and nail to get the Nebraska Legislature to expand Medicaid so that 90,000 hard-working people in our state can finally get the health care they need. For far too long, our lawmakers have failed to provide a way for many of our family, friends, and neighbors

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What to know about the Children’s Health Insurance Program

Health Care / By Sierra Salgado Pirigyi / 01/09/2018

There has been a lot of talk lately about the need for Congress to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). But what is CHIP, and why is it important? Here’s what is important to know. What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program? The Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, is a federal-state

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Poets and Performers – We’re looking for you!

Health Care / By Nic Swiercek / 01/09/2018

At Appleseed, we believe that every Nebraskan should have access to quality and affordable health care, and we are constantly looking for new and refreshing ways to engage community members in that fight. One of those ways is through poetry. Creative writing and performing can have a huge positive impact on people and communities. It

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More Nebraskans are Getting Covered through the Marketplace in 2017

Health Care / By admin / 11/30/2017

This is a guest post by Appleseed health care intern Suzie Cho. In recent months, there has been a lot of uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Marketplace. Despite that, the national trend shows that more people have been signing up for marketplace coverage than in previous years. For many Nebraskans

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Take Action – Senate tax bill threatens health care and economic opportunity

Health Care / By admin / 11/17/2017

Congress is risking Nebraskans’ health coverage as part of its tax plan, and we’re asking you to make a call today to keep it from happening. Please call both of our U.S. Senators. Tell them the Senate tax bill must not repeal the ACA’s individual mandate or result in cuts to Medicare. These changes

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Ending Cost Sharing Reductions will drive up health care costs, increase federal deficit

Health Care / By Sierra Salgado Pirigyi / 10/25/2017

In the past few weeks, the Trump Administration has announced several significant changes to the American health care system. I recently blogged about the rule changes regarding birth control coverage in employer-sponsored health plans. Here’s another. On October 12, the President announced that the administration would no longer make payments for cost sharing reductions (CSRs)

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