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Category Archives: Health Insurance
Ita s time to work together
It's time we kick drug companies and insurance lobbyists out of the healthcare conversation, listen to the American people, and finally work together to lower prices and make healthcare work better for everyone. Because thousands of Ohioans stopped by my office, wrote letters, made calls, and shared their stories, we were able to stop a bill that would have raised premiums and kicked millions of Americans off of their health insurance.
Employer-based health coverage likely to stay awhile
Get your insurance through your employer? The ongoing political turmoil around "Obamacare" all but guarantees you'll still be able to do that. Ask Walt Rowen, whose business is etching glass but whose experience managing century-old, family-owned Susquehanna Glass makes him something of an expert on health care.
Despite insurers’ tactical win on ACA’S cost-sharing payments, uncertainty lingers
Health insurers have won powerful allies in a fight over federal subsidies that President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel for millions of people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act. A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Democratic state attorneys general favoring the subsidies can join a court case brought by the Republican-led House of Representatives.
Bipartisan ACA fix begins in Congress
Sen. Lamar Alexander talks with reporters on Nov. 29, 2016 before the Senate Policy Luncheons in the Capitol. Republicans on both sides of the Capitol scrambled Tuesday to defuse President Donald Trump's threat to cut off critical health insurance payments, moving around Trump toward bipartisan legislation to shore up the Affordable Care Act.
Donald Trump looking into executive action on healthcare: Rand Paul
U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he spoke to President Donald Trump by phone about healthcare reform on Monday and told the president he thought Trump had the authority to create associations that would allow organizations to offer group health insurance plans. Paul, a Republican, told reporters that Trump was considering taking some form of executive action to address problems with the healthcare system after the Senate failed last week to pass a measure to reform the system.
Trump threatened to end health care coverage for members of Congress. Can he?
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney explained Trump's tweet that bailouts to members of Congress would end soon on CNN on July 29, 2017. Following repeated failed attempts to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump has turned to bashing not only the health care law and its architects but all members of Congress on Twitter.
Health Insurers to Fill Gaps in Ohio’s Individual Coverage Market
Five health insurance companies in Ohio, including Molina Healthcare Inc., have stepped up to sell health plans in 19 counties that would have been without Obamacare individual coverage in 2018, the state's insurance regulator said. Ohio's Department of Insurance said it had worked to draw in insurers for the 20 counties that were left without an option after others, including Anthem Inc., said it would exit in 2018.
Trump, White House Continue to Press for Health Care Overhaul
President Donald Trump speaks about the healthcare vote during a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump and key aides pressed lawmakers Sunday to not abandon an overhaul of the country's health care law in the face of the Senate's rejection last week of three measures to repeal or replace it.
Majority of Americans want Congress to move on from healthcare reform
Nearly two-thirds of the country wants to either keep or modify the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and a majority of Americans want Congress to turn its attention to other priorities, the survey found. Republicans have vowed to dismantle the Affordable Care Act since Democratic President Barack Obama signed it into law in 2010, and it appeared they finally had their chance when Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.
New health benefits among major K-12 reforms of 2017
A new day in health care is slowly on its way for Washington's K-12 school teachers, classroom aides, part-time bus drivers and even lunchroom workers. The new school insurance program, approved by the Legislature in June, is not going to be a quick fix.
Exclusive: Majority of Americans want Congress to move on from healthcare reform – Reuters/Ipsos poll
A majority of Americans are ready to move on from healthcare reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed on Friday, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Saturday. Nearly two-thirds of the country wants to either keep or modify the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and a majority of Americans want Congress to turn its attention to other priorities, the survey found.
Repeal is dead (for now). But will Obamacare survive?
The Republicans' years-long desire to repeal Obamacare has collapsed, but that doesn't mean all is well with the health reform law. There are signs that the individual marketplace is stabilizing, but it remains fragile in many states.
GOP’s “skinny” healthcare bill fails to pass in the Senate
UPDATE: Republican Senators McCain, Murkowski and Collins vote against GOP's "skinny" repeal of American Care Act. The measure failed by a 51-49 vote.
Obamacare Chaos in Washington Leaves Investors Unfazed
Health-care companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have rallied 16 percent this year, beating the overall market's 11 percent gain. Insurers, the companies tied most closely to the Affordable Care Act, are up even more at 23 percent.
Today in the peanut gallery
This revised iteration of BCRA - which included an amendment by Sen. Ted Cruz to allow non-Obamacare plans back on the market paired with $100 billion in funding to partially offset the Medicaid cuts - was subject, because of the Senate budget rules, to a 60-vote threshold for a procedural vote. It failed handily, 43 to 57, with nine Republicans and all of the Democrats opposing it.
How California can save a Obamacarea
Hell hath no fury like a president scorned. And with the embarrassing collapse of the GOP-controlled Senate's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, many health care experts predict that Donald Trump and his administration will do whatever it takes to “let Obamacare fail,” as the president put it last week.
Uncertainty roils insurance markets
With Senate Republican leaders vowing to try and scrap the 2010 health-care law next week, millions of Americans with federally subsidized insurance plans are in danger of having those plans snatched from them the next time around. Although Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., may not have the votes to abolish Obamacare, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans could threaten the stability of the individual insurance market by cutting federal dollars that make those policies affordable.
Whata s next for ACA?
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin , speaking at a news conference at Memorial Center for Learning and Innovation Friday morning, framed the health care debate around the headlines. "Our friend and colleage John McCain deserves the best medical care - as a veteran, as an American.
Senate Republicans race toward vote to roll back Obamacare with key details still missing
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , flanked by other GOP leaders at the White House, is racing toward an vote next week to roll back the Affordable Care Act, though he has not said what the legislation will be. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , flanked by other GOP leaders at the White House, is racing toward an vote next week to roll back the Affordable Care Act, though he has not said what the legislation will be.