health insurance

Subsidies for many Ohio families who purchased their healthcare through Affordable Care Act marketplace disappeared because of changes made in 2025.

About three in five states use the federal marketplace Healthcare.gov, while the rest operate their own state-based marketplaces for ACA insurance.

Subsidies that were available last year to Ohioans getting insurance through the Affordable Care Act were eliminated at the end of 2025.

Many prosthetics and orthotics that are now covered by insurance in Ohio cannot get wet and do not give the wearer enough flexibillity to run or swim.

The unwinding of Medicaid and its looming budget cuts could mean less access to health care for Ohio kids.

A recently passed state law allows the Ohio Farm Bureau to offer health coverage outside of traditional insurance regulations.

Farmers with unpredictable and self-employed jobs can have a tough time getting health insurance. Ohio is the latest state to change the law to let the Farm Bureau sell an alternative.

Ohio plans to add work requirements for people insured under the Medicaid expansion, even after hearing that efforts to do this in other states did not lead to more employment, just less access to health care.

An Ohio Medicaid spokesperson said there aren't problems getting payments to providers, as an employee revealed earlier this month. But Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University Medical Center confirmed the problems.

The city council in Grove City voted to create a grant program to pay the health insurance premiums for the city's low-income residents. It may be the first program of its kind, but hasn't been funded yet.