Due to restrictive policies, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients have been barred from purchasing health coverage and accessing federal public benefit programs.

CLASP applauds today’s Biden Administration announcement of a final rule extending affordable health coverage to immigrant youth.

Madison Hardee published this op-ed in The Charlotte Observer about the damage to low-income people from the Trump Administration's sharp cuts to "navigators" who help people enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance plans. 

Recent activities show that Congressional Republicans have not abandoned their legislative goals of rolling back the ACA and block granting Medicaid even while the Trump Administration has shifted this year to undermining our health care safety net through Medicaid waivers, regulatory retrenchment and litigation.  

Yesterday, in apparent frustration at Congress’s failure to repeal the ACA, President Trump took major steps to sabotage the ACA, including signing an Executive Order and stopping CSR payments. 

Research has shown that uninsured rates have declined among all racial and ethnic groups under the Affordable Care Act.

With just two weeks left before the end of the federal fiscal year, Senate Republicans are once again trying to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA), leaving millions without coverage.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal poverty and uninsurance rates declined in 2016 as a result of successful government programs. However, far too many people still live in poverty, lack opportunity, and face structural barriers.

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) currently covers over 8 million low-income children in working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid. But without action from Congress, this program will expire at the end of September 2017.

CLASP is delighted to join others in breathing a sigh of relief that Medicaid and the ACA will continue to provide health insurance for children, families, young adults, people with disabilities, senior citizens, low-wage workers, and so many others.