Affordable Care Act

Open enrollment ends Jan. 15. Groups including LBU Community Clinic, Prism Health North Texas and United Way of Metropolitan Dallas offer help navigating the ACA marketplace.

The temporary injunction issued Monday would affect roughly 90,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in Texas.

Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of records shows that these mistakes and others were preventable.

The federal government estimates as many as 100,000 people in the DACA program could be eligible to enroll in a health care plan through the Affordable Care Act.

Almost 3.5 million Texans signed up for an Affordable Care Act plan during open enrollment, a record high for the state.

About 1.4 million Texans have gotten kicked off Medicaid this year, which means health insurance navigators have seen more folks looking for options.

One in four working-age Texans went without insurance last year.

The ACA has required health insurers to provide many medical screenings and other preventive services with no out-of-pocket cost to health plan members. But a recent court decision could upend that.

Some object to paying for health insurance plans that cover preventive services that they say violate their religious beliefs, which could cause millions to lose access to care if the courts agree.

The previous record was set in 2016, when 1.3 million Texans signed up for health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act during open enrollment.

Saturday is the last day for people to get health insurance through the online Affordable Care Act marketplace. Open enrollment for healthcare.gov began on Nov. 1, 2021.

Texans have more and cheaper 2022 health insurance plans to choose from on healthcare.gov.