EDITORIAL: Closing ranks to repeal and replace
There's "a time to break down," the Bible teaches, "and a time to build up." This is the moment for both, and the moment is called "repeal and replace."
Category Archives: Health Insurance
Tom Price Dodges Obamacare Question Everyone Is Asking
You gotta hand it to Tom "Smooth Operator" Price. He handles press conferences like a seasoned pro.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas,…
The bill would cut more than 20 taxes enacted under President Barack Obama 's heath law, saving taxpayers nearly $600 billion over the next decade. The bulk of the money would go to the wealthiest Americans.
Obamacare Replacement Proposed
Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate fire from Democrats. In a battle waged since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, Republicans including President Donald Trump have long vowed to repeal and replace the law.
GOP Overhaul Would Keep Obamacare’s ‘Cadillac Tax,’ But Delay It Until 2025
Might Republicans make job-based health insurance taxable? And how can you fight an insurance denial for lung-cancer screening? Also, can pharmacists prescribe drugs? Here are answers to some recent questions from readers. Q: I've heard that Republicans plan to change the system so that I'd have to pay income taxes on my health insurance benefits.
GOP ObamaCare Repeal And Replace Bill Unveiled
This evening the House GOP released its draft of a bill that will attempt to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with something that is cheaper, less offensive to liberty, and actually works. Health care is not a subject that I can discuss without the risk of beclowning myself so I'm going to lay out the salient points.
GOP prepares Obamacare repeal bill, but is split over how to help people pay
At issue is whether to replace Obamacare subsidies with refundable tax credits that would be based on a person's age rather than their income. A faction of conservative lawmakers don't like that these credits would be paid out to everyone buying coverage in the individual market.
With ‘Trumpcare’ On Horizon, Voters Go Wobbly On Repeal
As candidate Donald Trump hammered the Affordable Care Act last year as "a fraud," "a total disaster" and "very bad health insurance," more Americans than not seemed to agree with him. Now that President Trump and fellow Republicans show signs of keeping their promise to dump the law, many appear to be having second thoughts.
Politics | Horowitz: Obamacare Ain’t Easy to Kill
To borrow from Mark Twain, "Reports of Obamacare's death may be greatly exaggerated." The stepped up coverage of President Trump's and the Republican Congress' plans to repeal and replace the landmark health care law has paradoxically served to awaken the American public's awareness of its many strengths.
a House Divided? Key Republican would vote against ObamaCare plans
Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., said Monday that he could not get behind the Republican's current plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Walker, who chairs the Republican Study Committee, which has 170 members, told Bloomberg that he would recommend that his fellow members reject the plan, too.
Trump seeks help of insurers to smooth Obamacare transition
President Donald Trump sought on Monday to bring the nation's largest insurance companies on board with his plans to overhaul Obamacare, saying their help was needed to deliver a smooth transition to the Republicans' new plan. "We must work together to save Americans from Obamacare - you people know that and everyone knows that - to create more competition and to bring down prices substantially," Trump told insurers at a meeting at the White House.
Expect ‘something special’ to replace Obamacare, Trump tells health insurers
Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and congressional leaders are trying to figure out how to fulfill their pledge of repealing the law President Donald Trump attends a meeting with health insurance company executives Monday to discuss Obamacare. Leaders are trying to figure out how to fulfill their pledge of repealing the law and creating a replacement.
JFAC debates public school budget, health insurance costs…
Sen. Dean Mortimer, R-Idaho Falls, arguing for his motion for the Operations Division of the public school budget, said he believes the public school budget needs a line item for health insurance costs. "More and more districts are saying that they need a line item," he said.
Advocates rally to preserve Affordable Care Act
A crowd of doctors, health care executives, and other supporters of the Affordable Care Act gathered in front of the State House on Saturday to condemn President Trump's vow to dismantle the nation's landmark health care law. Some protesters wore white doctor's coats, and others held signs reading, "Patients Over Politics," and "Hands off our ACA.
Obamacare premium surge lays bare America’s economic divisions
Mike Schwarz, sole proprietor of Mike Schwarz Photography, poses for a Feb. 9 photo in Tampa, Florida. Schwarz is a self-employed business owner who buys his own health insurance.
Thanking Justice Roberts
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case which held that the "penalty" for not buying health insurance was actually a "tax" and therefore constitutional.
Colorado GOP launches campaign against insurance exchange
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act who are also opponents of Colorado's GOP-led plan to undo Colorado's state-run insurance exchange gather for a rally organized by the national Save My Care Bus Tour, on the state Capitol steps in Denver, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. A bill being heard in the Senate Finance Committee would abolish the state-run health insurance exchange.
Repeal and replace? All Americans could lose Obamacare protections
Under so-called deductible-credit plans, the deductible diminishes year by year for policyholders who don't spend a lot on health care. Supporters say these programs reward good health by helping customers reduce their costs.
a Obamacarea sign-ups show slippage in Trump era
Facing higher premiums, less choice and a last-minute advertising pullback, fewer people signed up for coverage this year through HealthCare.gov, according to data from a preliminary government report Friday. About 9.2 million people signed up through HealthCare.gov, the insurance marketplace serving most states, said the Health and Human Services department.
Democrats mock ‘placeholder’ in GOP Obamacare bill
OCTOBER 24: U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone speaks during a hearing on implementation of the Affordable Care Act before the House Energy and Commerce Committee October 24, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Developers who helped to build the website for people to buy health insurance under Obamacare testified before the panel on what had gone wrong to cause the technical difficulties in accessing the site.