Why the ACA and any Republican plan doesn’t and won’t work
So if you turn on the news this week (or any week), you hear about the Republicans’ American Healthcare Act and whether or not the Republicans and President Trump will ever get it passed. There is a lot of serious back and forth about the pros and cons of each plan (for a pretty good […]
How Trump May Cover Americans with Preexisting Conditions
President-elect Donald Trump promises that Americans with pre-existing conditions will have access to health insurance, even after he dismantles Obamacare. But the system wouldn’t work the way it did under Obamacare, which revolutionized coverage by prohibiting insurers from turning away the sick or charging them higher premiums based on their medical conditions. And that’s left […]
Health Insurance Push Targets Young Adults
The Obama administration will use targeted, digital messages and online networks such as Twitter in a sweeping campaign to get young adults to sign up for health insurance during the Affordable Care Act’s fall open enrollment, appealing to a group seen as critical to the law’s success. The administration, which announced the new push on […]
House Republicans Unveil Long-Awaited Replacement for Health Law
WASHINGTON — After six years of vague talk about a conservative alternative to the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans on Tuesday finally laid out the replacement for a repealed health law — a package of proposals that they said would slow the growth of health spending and relax federal rules for health insurance. Opponents began […]
Government moves to curb short-term health insurance to boost Obamacare risk pool
Short-term health insurance soon could get a whole lot shorter. Federal officials Wednesday moved to improve the financial outlook of Obamacare insurance plans by calling for limits on increasingly popular short-term health plans that are siphoning off healthier customers from coverage sold both on government marketplaces and outside those exchanges. The government’s move would limit […]
Proposal to Reduce Medicare Drug is Widely Criticized
An Obama administration proposal to reduce Medicare payments for many prescription drugs has run into sharp bipartisan criticism, suggesting that it is easier to diagnose the problem of high prices than to solve it. Patients’ advocates have joined doctors and drug companies in warning that the federal plan could jeopardize access to important medications. Every member of […]
Survey: Obamacare Disapproval Surges
A survey that was conducted from April 12-19th among 2,008 adults from the Pew Research Center found: 54% of Americans disapprove of the Affordable Care Act compared to the 44% who approve of the law. 31% of respondents say the health care law had a mostly negative effect on them and their families, 23% said […]