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15 Years of the Affordable Care Act: More Americans Than Ever Have Health Insurance Coverage

Sunday, March 23, 2025 marked 15 years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. In this post, we take a look at what the Affordable Care Act is, how it’s changed America’s insurance coverage rates, and the impact of the ACA on uninsured populations.

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Who’s Left Out? Exploring Minnesota’s Uninsured Population with Interactive Maps

Our updated uninsured profile mapping tool helps make complex health data easier to understand, providing a visual companion to the tool’s Excel spreadsheet. In this post, we look at the map’s features and how you can use it to explore uninsurance and health care access in MN.

BRFSS Maps, Charts, and More: Exploring BRFSS Data on State Health Compare

Visualizations, like BRFSS maps and tables, can help users analyze and explore BRFSS data. BRFSS visualization tools on State Health Compare let you easily create clear, understandable, and accessible charts & graphs to start your own analysis of BRFSS data. Learn more in this blog.

What Are Pre-Existing Conditions? A Brief Overview of the ACA, Pre-Existing Conditions, and How They Connect

What are pre-existing conditions? Pre existing conditions could once lead to automatic denial of insurance coverage. Learn more in SHADAC's latest Basics Blog.

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Research Letter, “Provider Discrimination by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” Published in Journal of General Internal Medicine

SHADAC Senior Research Associate Natalie Schwehr Mac Arthur and co-authors wanted to better understand provider discrimination based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity in Minnesota. Their analysis of 2021 & 2023 data from the Minnesota Health Access Survey (MNHA) has been published by…

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Public Health & Health Policy Resources

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SHADAC and UMN Cannabis Research Center (CRC) Release New Brief: Cannabis Use Across the States in the Early Legalization Era

In this brief, titled "Cannabis Use Across the States in the Early Legalization Era", we use data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to understand how legalization may be impacting cannabis use prevalence between states and age groups.