A recent Gallop poll of American adults indicates that health care remains a top-of-mind issue among Americans and will, once again, be a consideration in the upcoming Presidential election. Of the poll responses, 35 percent of adults ranked health care extremely important, and 81 percent ranked health care as either extremely important or very important.

In a “friend of the court” brief, HAP joined state hospital associations from around the country in urging the Supreme Court to provide “prompt and final resolution” of questions raised by the appeals court decision that held the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate unconstitutional.

According to an issue brief issued by the Commonwealth Fund, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) not only narrowed racial and ethnic disparities in insurance coverage, but also has reduced racial disparities in access to health care.