AHIP Releases Nationwide Poll Showing Strong Satisfaction with Employer-Provided Coverage

December 10, 2024

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AHIP’s Coverage@Work released the results of a new nationwide poll that found strong satisfaction with employer-provided coverage. A growing majority of consumers (75%, up 12% since April 2023) are satisfied with their current employer-provided coverage and 74% prefer to get their coverage through their employer.

Plan satisfaction is driven by the comprehensive coverage (49%), affordability (48%), and choice of providers their plans provide (45%). A growing majority of respondents report that what they currently pay for their coverage overall is reasonable (66%, up +13% since April 2023).

Notably, a growing majority of respondents oppose taxing employee health benefits (58%, up 6% since April 2023), and an even greater majority would be less likely to vote for a lawmaker who supports taxing them (63%).

legislation

Connecticut Lawmakers Pass Health Insurance and Patient Protection Act

SB 10 passed the legislature and now heads to the Gov. Ned Lamont (D) where he is expected to sign it into law. The bill would require changes regarding how insurers report mental health parity compliance to the Department of Insurance and expands drug step therapy prohibitions for patients being treated for multiple sclerosis or […]
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July 9, 2025

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legislation

Reconciliation Bill Signed into Law

Congress has passed and enacted the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a sweeping tax and budget reconciliation bill, just ahead of President Trump’s deadline. The Senate approved their revised measure by a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The House gave final approval to the Senate-amended version on July 3, […]
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July 9, 2025

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ACAP Webinar: Thursday, July 24th | 2:00PM EST

As GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound surge in popularity for treating diabetes and obesity, Medicaid programs across the U.S. are grappling with unprecedented financial and policy challenges. With patients paying upwards of $11,000 annually for a year supply, and Medicaid spending on these drugs skyrocketing from $577 million in 2019 to nearly $4 billion […]
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July 9, 2025

medicaid

Advocacy Organizations Push Back Against House-Passed Medicaid Cuts

Following the release of the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation package, the Modern Medicaid Alliance and more than 190 leading health care organizations said they are “deeply concerned” with the proposal to further cut Medicaid. Their letter to Senate Majority Leaders noted, “The proposals released yesterday go even further to undercut the program…Rather than upholding President […]
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July 9, 2025

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perspectives

AAF Analyzes Financial Burden of a Single-Payer System

American Action Forum (AAF) recently published insights into the potential costs of changing the U.S. health care system to a single-payer system, sometimes referred to as “Medicare for All” (M4A). Over the past decade, numerous Democrats have proposed that patients would be “better off” with a single-payer system, where the federal government is the sole […]
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April 9, 2025

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survey results

McLaughlin Poll Finds Voters Oppose Government Intervention in the Private Market

PCMA released results from a public opinion research conducted by McLaughlin & Associates showing that American voters in battleground states overwhelmingly oppose policies that interfere with the private market and believe drug companies should be held accountable for high drug prices. The survey found that 94% of battleground state voters are concerned with the high […]
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April 9, 2025

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survey results

New Research Finds Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Pharmaceutical Advertising Costs U.S. Taxpayers Billions of Dollars

As reported in Politico, a new analysis by CSRxP finds that limiting or taxing DTC ads could increase federal revenue by up to $1.8 billion annually. The analysis is based on the potential tax impact if advertising expenses were not tax-deductible as they are today. The research found that 10 of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers […]
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April 9, 2025

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Lown Institute Study Finds Unnecessary Back Surgeries Cost Medicare $600 Million Annually

A new analysis from the Lown Institute, an independent think tank, found that hospitals performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. over three years. Roughly $2 billion was spent on the “low value” procedures while patients were put at risk of poor outcomes, researchers wrote. The researchers looked at […]
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December 10, 2024

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