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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.
He says they鈥檙e better off having some insurance coverage, even if they have high deductibles. But advocates say they lose access to free clinics and can鈥檛 afford to use their coverage because of the deductibles.
After Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling, the HHS secretary says the administration faces challenges to enroll more people in marketplace plans and expand Medicaid.
In its first five years, the Affordable Care Act has survived technical meltdowns, a presidential election, two Supreme Court challenges -- including one resolved Thursday -- and dozens of repeal efforts in Congress. But its long-term future still isn鈥檛 ensured. Here are five of the biggest hurdles left for the law.
The 6-3 ruling stopped a challenge that would have erased subsidies in at least 34 states for individuals and families buying insurance through the federal government鈥檚 online marketplace.
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld a key part of the 2010 health law 鈥 tax subsidies for people who buy health insurance on marketplaces run by the federal government. KHN鈥檚 Mary Agnes Carey discusses the decision with Stuart Taylor Jr., of the Brookings Institution, and KHN鈥檚 Julie Appleby.
Lawmakers and policy experts offered a range of views on the high court鈥檚 long-awaited decision.
The president says that "in many ways, the law is working better than we expected it to."
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