ACA Marketplace Rule Template Comments
By HHS’s own estimate, up to 2 million people will lose health care coverage, most of them low income and in non-expansion states. The proposed Program Integrity rule, in case it’s useful for your organizations:
This rule would eliminate the ability of people with DACA to enroll in the Marketplace, limit open enrollment periods, and reduce the value of tax credits that individuals receive to support their coverage, among other changes. The rule has a very short 30-day comment period due April 11, 2025. Your input on the proposed Marketplace Integrity and Affordability rule is important!
To support advocates in responding, Community Catalyst, with invaluable contributions from our partners at the National Immigration Law Center and National Health Law Program, has developed templated comments and resources, including:
Template comments for (you can check here to find what type of Health Insurance Marketplace your state has)
In addition to these new resources, we are also sharing some additional opportunities to engage on specific issue areas.
Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) Coalition sign on: Community Catalyst signed on to this letter to send a strong message to the Trump administration that efforts to deny health care access to people with DACA will face real opposition.
Join us by signing on here by April 9, 2025
Please also consider encouraging allied organizations to sign on.
Folks are encouraged to include individual, unique accounts of both how damaging gender-affirming care exclusions are for individual patients, as well as how beneficial gender affirming care is for transgender people. Here are some comment resources:
Patient-facing: https://action.transequality.org/a/protecttranshealthehbs
Provider-facing: https://queerdoc.com/tell-hhs-aca-that-trans-care-is-essential-care/
