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Republicans are stuck on healthcare but they have no choice but to persevere
Republican health analysts said party officials had little choice but to keep trying to reach consensus — or at least enough consensus to pass a bill out of the House.
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Cost vs. value for benefits and premiums is at the heart of the ACA repeal...
Those who want to get rid of the required benefits point to the fact that premiums in the individual market jumped dramatically from 2013 to 2014, the first year the benefits were required.
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5 ways the American Health Care Act debate could turn out
Although the House may pass its bill to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans’ pathway to fulfilling their seven-year effort to undo the federal health law is getting...
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Hospitals are finding new ways to address patient engagement challenge:...
Nearly 1 in 8 Americans live with some degree of food insecurity, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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If the individual health insurance marketplace breaks, can it be reassembled?
The Trump administration’s recent actions make it more difficult for insurers to enroll the healthy people needed to offset the costs of the sick who make it a priority to have coverage.
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Lack of AHCA bill transparency is why 2017 is a bit like 1986 on Capitol Hill
Congress struggling to finish a huge budget reconciliation bill. A GOP president pushing a major overhaul of federal payments for health insurance that could transform the lives of sick patients. It...
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Senate version of ACA replacement emerges with plans to transform Medicaid
Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Thursday unveiled a bill that would dramatically transform the nation’s Medicaid program. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is seeking a vote on the...
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The role the first woman parliamentarian has to play in the fate of the...
Elizabeth MacDonough can decide what pieces of the emerging Senate overhaul of the Affordable Care Act can be included under the budget reconciliation process senators are using
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Senate Republicans revise healthcare bill but will they have the votes?
CBO is expected to offer its score of the bill next week, but some Senate Republicans on Thursday said that rather than wait for that, they might ask the Department of Health and Human Services to do...
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What will be the ripple effect of taking insurance away from millions on the...
Hospitals in sparsely populated areas, particularly in states that did not opt to expand the Medicaid program, have been cutting back services like maternity care or closing altogether in recent years.
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5 reasons why GOP’s ACA repeal and replace efforts have failed in Senate
In retrospect, Republicans’ inability to overhaul the health law should not come as much of a surprise. Many ACA provisions have proved popular and lack of presidential leadership on this issue has...
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Trump threatens loss of Congressional health benefits
President Trump, increasingly frustrated by congressional Republicans’ inability to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, upped the political ante by taking aim at a new target: health coverage...
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5 unconventional proposals to stabilize the individual health insurance market
Policymakers generally agree on what immediate efforts to stabilize the market might include. But what about ideas that go beyond the oft-repeated ones? Here are five proposals that are more...
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How much flexibility should states have to experiment with paying for and...
One of the few things that Republicans and Democrats broadly agree on is that states should have some flexibility to experiment with different ways to pay for and deliver health care. The problem is...
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Will the Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal and replace proposal share the fate of...
After an earlier attempt to replace ACA this summer fell one vote short when three Republican senators cast no votes, the latest push is setting off a massive guessing game on Capitol Hill about where...
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As CBO assessment of latest ACA repeal-replace effort comes out, Sen. Susan...
The CBO said that fewer people would be covered because subsidies that help people pay premiums and other financial aid would be eliminated, and individuals would no longer be required to have...
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Trump adds exemption so that non religious employers can avoid providing...
The exemption is for “non-religious organizations with sincerely held moral convictions inconsistent with providing coverage for some or all contraceptive services.”
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A timeline highlighting Trump administration roadblocks to ACA enrollment
On the opening day of open enrollment, here’s how President Donald Trump and his administration have sought to deter enrollment on the insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act.
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Tax bill from House Republicans calls for ending deduction for those with...
The medical deduction, originally created during the World War II era, is available only to taxpayers whose expenses are above 10 percent of their adjusted gross income.
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5 ways the tax bill could affect health policy
It turns out the tax bills in the House and Senate also aim to reshape healthcare. Here are five ways these bills are trying to achieve that.
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This is why people hate Obamacare
A big part of why people don’t like the health law is that they don’t understand what it does or how it works. Some of that is because healthcare is complicated.
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ACA insurance exchange signups near 2017 numbers despite shortened enrollment...
A day after President Donald Trump said the Affordable Care Act “has been repealed,” officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange in 2018.
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Without congressional action, insurers say premiums will go up in 2019 due to...
Insurers have until summer to decide if they want to continue to sell policies in the ACA marketplaces, but many start making preliminary decisions as early as April.
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This ACA timeline illustrates how the health law has been changed since Trump...
Here is a timeline of the most consequential events that have shaped the health law through the Trump Administration’s and GOP’s “repeal and replace” efforts in Congress.
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Here’s what you should know about Trump’s proposal to cut Planned Parenthood...
The proposal would require facilities receiving federal family planning funds to be physically separate from those that perform abortion; would eliminate the requirement that women with unintended...
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5 things to know about Trump administration’s latest move to dismantle...
The Trump administration is refusing to defend key parts of the Affordable Care Act, essentially arguing that federal courts should find the health law’s protection for people with pre-existing...
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Atul Gawande hopes to fix ‘broken’ employer based care as CEO of...
Gawande said the health system is moving “from individual delivery of stuff … to team delivery of outcomes. And that’s a radically different place.” He wants to help make that transition more effective.
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Senate Democrats make protecting ACA rallying cry for opposition to Supreme...
“The Supreme Court will ultimately decide if nearly 800,000 West Virginians with pre-existing conditions will lose their healthcare,” said U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia)
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NYU School of Medicine’s tuition-free decision sparks debate
Not everyone thinks that making medical school tuition-free for all students, including those who can afford it, is the best way to approach the complicated issue of student debt.
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The case of the ACA’s disappearing taxes
The first piece of financing to disappear happened before most of the law even took effect and more disappeared over time.
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