Category: Health Insurance

Commentary: Trump and Obama’s legacy

… to go down in history. Obamacare was passed into law to give some 20 million Americans the opportunity to purchase health Insurance through private Insurance companies subsidized by the Federal government. But from the start it wasn’t presented …

Rep. Doggett encouraging people to sign up for healthcare

In an effort to get people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, stopped by the Foundation Communities office in Central Austin Monday to spread the word. While at the center, Doggett talked about the future of the ACA now that Republicans have vowed to repeal it.

Is it still worth signing up for Obamacare?

Chief among them is that the last day to enroll for health care insurance in 2017 is Tuesday, Jan. 31. Second, despite the confusion about Obamacare’s future, people who sign up before the deadline will lock in coverage for the year, as well their tax subsidies. What happens to the law into 2018 remains unclear, however.

Here’s What Expect From Anthem, Cigna, Aetna, Humana Earnings

Analysts say to watch for 2017 guidance for signals on how insurers believe President Trump will handle the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. As earnings season heats up, analysts say to watch the Big Five health insurers for guidance on how they will respond to impending changes to the Affordable Care Act ushered in by the Trump administration.

Tuesday is last day to sign up for Obamacare

This year, many enrollees have added questions as the Trump administration and legislators in Washington dismantle the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare, which established the marketplace and created penalties for people who forgo health insurance. Yes. “Though consumers may have concerns about the future of the Affordable Care Act, as of now, nothing has changed about the fourth enrollment period - not plans, not prices, and not dates,” according to Enroll America, which seeks to get the uninsured signed up for coverage.

House passes MNsure premium relief bill

On a bipartisan vote of 73-54, the Minnesota House approved the 2017 Health Care Emergency Aid and Access bill which provides direct premium relief and preserves access to life-saving and end-of-life care. While lawmakers work toward long-term state and federal health insurance reforms, this legislation institutes immediate consumer- driven improvements that stand alone and will not be impacted by those future changes.

PM: Hospital investments to be covered from excise tax

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka want a part of the revenue from the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco to go to a fund, from which investments of public hospitals would be covered, he said on Friday. Health Minister Miloslav Ludvik said the health insurance payments that the hospitals receive can cover their operation costs but not their investments.

‘Full Measure’: Trumpcare new

… sick again.” Grassley: “Well, I can give you general principles. Selling insurance across state lines, emphasis on health savings accounts, greater transparency of pricing by hospitals and doctors, medical malpractice court reform, doing away with …

Repeal or retain? Election opens final act for ‘Obamacare’

In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, people line up to enroll for health insurance at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, hours before the deadline in the first enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act and/or any replacement will doom private insurance in our country if these two problems are not addressed: 1) Private insurance cannot insure people with a preexisting condition any more than you can insure a “burning house.”

Gov’t asked to extend NHIS to Orthopaedic patients

Professor Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, President of the Foundation of Orthopaedics and Complex Spine , has called on the government to extend the National Health Insurance Scheme to cover the treatment of orthopaedic care. Prof Boachie who is also Professor Emeritus of Orthopaedic Surgery said: “If the cost of treatment is GH? 10,000.00 for instance, the NHIS could decide to take up GH? 2000.00 as the patient takes care of the rest, which we can help to make part payment and start a payment plan.”

Guess Who Can’t Wait for Trumpcare?

… hasn’t been a particularly popular law since its passage in March 2010. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll, which has been conducted on a near-monthly basis since Obamacare’s passage, just a handful of months have …

State director to run N.M. insurance hub

The director of the agency responsible for Arkansas’ health insurance exchanges will become director of the exchanges in New Mexico on March 1, New Mexico’s exchange board announced Friday. After submitting her resignation to the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace board of directors last week, Cheryl Smith Gardner told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette she had accepted a job in New Mexico, but didn’t provide further details.

Everything you need to know about Trump’s executive actions so far

President Trump has been in office for a week and has taken advantage of his executive powers by beginning to craft and impose his administration’s policies. Seven days into his first term, Mr. Trump has issued more than a dozen executive actions, which include a government-wide freeze on new and pending regulations, the reinstatement of a policy that bars U.S. funding to health providers abroad that discuss abortion as an option and a call for the construction of a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

NORC Poll: Broad worries about potentiala

Though “Obamacare” still divides Americans, a majority worry that many will lose coverage if the 2010 law is repealed in the nation’s long-running political standoff over health care. AP-NORC Poll: Broad worries about potential health care loss WASHINGTON – Though “Obamacare” still divides Americans, a majority worry that many will lose coverage if the 2010 law is repealed in the nation’s long-running political standoff over health care.

Covered California: Trump move to kill ACA ads fails

The Trump administration’s decision to cancel $5 million in advertising the federal government had already paid for to remind Americans of Tuesday’s 2017 open enrollment deadline for Obamacare will have little impact in the Golden State. That’s because Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange established under the Affordable Care Act, is not federally directed or funded.

Republicans Are Starting to Worry About ‘Trumpcare’

The Save My Care Rally on the steps of New York City Hall, Make the Road New York issues “Safeguarding Immigrant Coverage” a report on benefits of health insurance for immigrants and joins national effort to oppose repeal of the Affordable Care Act. That was the phrase used in a closed-door meeting among House Republicans to discuss concern that the yet-to-be-legislated Obamacare replacement could create political liabilities in the 2018 election if voters lose their health insurance or if the repeal destabilizes the health care market.

Guest opinion: Repeal and replac…

… status quos; but rather a new approach that puts you – the patient – first, and brings choice and competition to health insurance. Patients, doctors, and businesses have been dealing with the failures of Obamacare since it was enacted. Millions of …

Affordable Care Act enrollment ongoing, despite Trump pulling ads

Despite the Trump administration recently pulling the plug on all advertisements and marketing for the Affordable Care Act’s current open enrollment period, anyone can still sign up for health care insurance under the law through the end of the month. Erin Knot, the Michigan director for Enroll America, doesn’t expect anyone would lose their coverage immediately if Republican lawmakers carry out their promise to repeal Obamacare this year.

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End sought to state health care exchange

Regardless of what Republicans and President Donald Trump do in Congress when it comes to Obamacare, a Colorado state senator wants to do away with the state’s health care exchange. Freshman Sen. Jim Smallwood, R-Parker, said the state’s exchange, Connect for Health Colorado, isn’t working and needs to go away.

Fight Is On To Protect Health Care In California, Says Foundation Head

As Republicans seek to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, advocacy organizations around the nation are strategizing on how best to respond. Do they defend the law at all costs? Do they take part in the repeal conversation so they can help design an alternative? Already, numerous groups are mobilizing patients and health care advocates to raise awareness of the impact of a repeal.

IGDA calls on US developers to act on Obamacare repeal threat

The International Game Developers Association has encouraged studios to contact their congressional representative over the threat to repeal the Affordable Care Act – AKA Obamacare. It follows a series of stories on Waypoint , which states that ‘over a quarter of all US games industry employees are not provided with health insurance by their employers’.

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Event organizer Bud Porter delivers a speech Wednesday on his support for affordable health care before delivering a written statement to U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess’ Lake Dallas office. About 40 people piled into the office of U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess in Lake Dallas on Wednesday to deliver written statements and demand a meeting with the congressman to discuss the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.