Donald Trump has only just taken over as President of the United States but he has already started work on repealing one of Barack Obama’s flagship policies. The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, has been a contentious issue in America and a key part of Trump’s campaign for presidency.
Category: Health Insurance
Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway Says Obamacare – Penalty’ Will End
Kellyanne Conway, a key adviser to President Donald Trump, said the new administration plans to end the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance, a step that could destabilize the law’s markets. Conway, in an interview airing Sunday on NBC News’ “Sunday Today With Willie Geist,” appeared to indicate that the law’s requirement that most employers offer coverage to their full-time workers would also end.
How Trump’s executive order impacts future of ‘Obamacare’
President Donald Trump’s first executive order targets the sweeping “Obamacare” law by giving federal agencies broad leeway to chip away at the measure. But Trump still needs Congress to do away with the law for good.
Letters: Price is wrong steward for country’s health care
Rep. Tom Price, the nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. I am a pediatrician in Philadelphia, and I oppose the nomination of U.S. Rep. Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services.
Pisgah Legal Services leads local movement to protect Obamacare
Recently elected Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara addresses a room full of Affordable Care Act supporters as congress threatens to repeal the law. Photo courtesy of Pisgah Legal Services Repeal efforts are looming large in Congress, but the Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land for now.
NORC Poll: Americans of all stripes say fix health care
Sylvia Douglas twice voted for President Barack Obama and last year cast a ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton. But when it comes to “Obamacare,” she now sounds like President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump vows – insurance for everybody’ in replacing Obamacare
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 11, 2017. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump aims to replace Obamacare with a plan that would envisage “insurance for everybody,” he said in an interview with the Washington Post published on Sunday night.
Sewell voices opposition to Obamacare repeal efforts
With a near party-line 227-198 House vote, Congress gave final approval Friday to a budget that will ease passage of a still-unwritten bill replacing President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul with a GOP edition. The budget – the Senate approved it Thursday – bars Democratic senators from blocking that future legislation with a filibuster.
‘This experiment has failed’: House charts course to repeal health law
The House cleared the way Friday for speedy action to repeal the Affordable Care Act, putting Congress on track to undo the most significant health care law in a half-century. With a near party-line vote of 227-198, the House overcame the opposition of Democrats and the anxieties of some Republicans to approve a budget blueprint that allows Republicans to end major provisions of President Barack Obama’s health care law without the threat of a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
Reviewing the other night’s travesties
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan reads from a list of states with increasing health insurance premiums during his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitors Center at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 12, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yesterday, January 12, was a shameful day for us in Colorado.
Personalized IRS letters nudge uninsured to get coverage
If you haven’t signed up for health insurance, you may soon be getting a not-too-subtle nudge from the taxman. The IRS is sending personalized letters to millions of taxpayers who might be uninsured, reminding them that they could be on the hook for hundreds of dollars in fines under the federal health care law if they don’t sign up soon.
As Obamacare Repeal Heats Up, Newly Insured North Carolinians Fret
Hawes, 55, is from Charlotte, N.C. She ended up going without insurance for a few years, but in 2015 she bought coverage on HealthCare.gov, the Affordable Care Act marketplace, with the help of a big subsidy. “I was born with heart trouble and I also had, in 2003, open-heart surgery,” she said.
McConnell’s Dilemma: Govern or Destroy?By Michael Tomasky
The Senate majority leader wants to keep power. Throwing 20 million people off health insurance would probably hurt his chances-but the base doesn’t care about the repeal’s consequences.
Obamacare drama at Senate vote-a-rama
Senate Republicans are poised to take the first step to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law by approving a budget blueprint that they’ve dubbed the Obamacare “repeal resolution.” The largely symbolic exercise — set to begin Wednesday evening and possibly stretching into the wee hours of Thursday — is ripe for theater.
After Obamacare, what’s next?
Let’s try to get this straight. Donald Trump campaigned as the champion of lower-paid working people who deserve better than they have.
D.C. officials vow to fight for uninsured if Obamacare repeal passes
D.C. officials have vowed not to leave the city’s most vulnerable residents without health insurance if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, despite the possibility of a $623 million shortfall for health care in the District. As the chairman of the D.C. Council’s newly formed Health Committee, Vincent Gray is uniquely positioned to take the lead in dealing with the aftermath of a dismantled ACA in the District.
Grace Notes: Bobby Jindal’s attempt to get back into health care debate typically tone deaf
One of Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ most significant first-year accomplishments was the expansion of Medicaid, which has provided health insurance to upwards of 370,000 working poor Louisianans to date. But it’s worth remembering that the three major Republicans who ran against him all suggested they’d accept the largely federally-funded expansion as well.
The Wall Street Journal: McConnell says GOP will have new health plan soon after Obamacare repeal
Congress will quickly devise a new health-insurance system after moving to repeal the Obama administration’s signature health-care law in coming days, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday, despite growing questions within the Republican Party over the GOP’s strategy. “We will be replacing it rapidly after repealing it,” the Kentucky Republican said Sunday on CBS.
Obamacare is no legacy; it’s a failing law that needs a fix
It shouldn’t have come to this — a repeal battle over President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act — but it has. Republicans are in a dominant position in Congress to dismantle the law, passed in 2009 when Democrats controlled both legislative branches and the White House.
Fact Check: Once Again, Lawmakers Are Stretching The Facts On Obamacare
President Obama and Vice President-elect Mike Pence were both on Capitol Hill Wednesday, making competing cases for and against Obama’s signature health care law. Republicans have promised to make repeal of the Affordable Care Act their first order of business, once they control both Congress and the White House.
Republicans finally have the power to repeal Obamacare, but they’re still not sure how
Healthcare workers, patients, seniors and others rally in Los Angeles against GOP plans to repeal Obamacare. Republicans are quickly discovering that repeal is easier said than done.
Outside the Box: I’m a former health insurance CEO and this is what Obamacare repeal will do
There’s a joke among insurers that there are two things that health insurance companies hate to do – take risks and pay claims. But, of course, these are the essence of their business! Yet, if they do too much of either, they will go broke, and if they do too little, their customers will find a better policy.
Commentary: Safety net faces dire threats from Trump, GOP
Poor Americans are facing the gravest threat to the federal safety net in decades as President-elect Donald Trump takes office accompanied by a Republican-controlled Congress. The risks to essential benefits for tens of millions of low- and moderate- income Americans include losing coverage extended to them by the Affordable Care Act , threats to the fundamental structure of the Medicaid health-insurance program for the poor, and further reduction of already squeezed funding for scores of other important programs serving the most vulnerable Americans.
Federal Judge Places Injunction On Obama Transgender And Abortion Rules
A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a nationwide injunction halting enforcement of Obama administration protections for transgender and abortion-related healthcare services just one day before they were due to go into effect. The lawsuit – brought by Texas, a handful of other states, and some religiously affiliated nonprofit medical groups – challenges a regulation implementing the sex nondiscrimination requirement found in the Affordable Care Act .
Analysis: GOP vexed by factions on replacing health law
Republicans are united on repealing President Barack Obama ‘s health care law, but ideologically and practically speaking, they’re in different camps over replacing it. Getting the factions together won’t be easy.
Analysis: GOP vexed by factions on replacing health law
In this Dec. 1, 2016 file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Republicans are united on repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law, but ideologically and practically speaking, they’re in different camps over replacing it. Getting the factions together won’t be easy.
Republicans want Trump to make quick cuts to Obamacare benefits
In this photo taken Oct. 24, 2016, the HealthCare.gov 2017 web site home page as seen in Washington. Consumers will have the least choice next year than at any time since the health insurance markets created by President Barack Obama’s overhaul opened, a new, county-level analysis for The Associated Press has found.
Trump voters will be hurt the most with Obamacare repeal and Democrats have to remind them of that
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according… Senate Republicans refused to give President Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia even the courtesy of a… Liberal bloggers aren’t the only ones sending a strong warning to Democrats about not helping Republicans one iota when it comes to dismantling Obamacare, or their bullshit efforts to “replace” it. Here’s Theda Skocpol , a professor of government and sociology at Harvard and the director of the Scholars Strategy Network: For the Democratic Party, the coming Republican assault on public health insurance represents a huge political opportunity.
Gallup’s Top Well-Being Discoveries of 2016
The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index provides nearly real-time data on Americans’ well-being across five elements: purpose, social, financial, community and physical. The following are Gallup editors’ picks for the most important health and well-being findings reported in 2016.
Obama helped bring back economy, restless voters chose Trump
The president will leave behind an economy far stronger than the one he inherited. Unemployment is 4.6 percent, a nine-year low.