Trump’s Pick To Run Medicare And Medicaid Has Red State Policy Chops
Seema Verma is a consultant who was Vice President-elect Mike Pence's health policy advisor when he was governor of Indiana, playing a key role in Medicaid expansion in that state.
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Price鈥檚 Appointment Boosts GOP Plans To Overhaul Medicare And Medicaid
Privatizing the Medicare program for the elderly and disabled and turning the Medicaid program for the poor back to the states are long-time goals for Republicans in Congress and the White House.
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Worries About Health Insurance Cross Political Boundaries
The uncertainty over what could replace Obamacare has left many uneasy about what will happen with their medical care.
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Ask Emily
No Immediate Changes To Your Obamacare Coverage
Despite President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, state officials and advocates say Californians' health plan is safe for now.
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Pence Expanded Health Coverage As Governor, Now Threatens To Take It Away
Indiana鈥檚 Obamacare Medicaid expansion 鈥 with a conservative twist 鈥 may offer lessons for Republicans鈥 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 promise.
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California Braces For Medi-Cal鈥檚 Future Under Trump And The GOP
California officials jumped at the chance to cover millions more low-income people by expanding its Medicaid program. Now, health policymakers and advocates fear the Trump administration and a Republican-ruled Congress will roll back the state鈥檚 progress.
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In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Grow Over Medicaid
Low-income residents in poverty-stricken Clay County worry what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin鈥檚 ambitions to overhaul the state鈥檚 Medicaid program go forward.
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Uncertain Fate Of Health Law Giving Health Industry Heartburn
The effect of 鈥渞epeal and replace鈥 could have greatest consequences for hospitals. They accepted lower federal funding under the law because their uncompensated care was expected to fall as more people became insured.
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Blue Shield, California鈥檚 Biggest Obamacare Insurer, Vows It’s Not 鈥楻unning For The Hills鈥
The company鈥檚 CEO also dismisses Trump鈥檚 notion of selling insurance plans across state lines, calling it 鈥榩erplexing.鈥
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Electing To 鈥極pt Out鈥 Of Obamacare
Despite tax penalties, opponents of the nation鈥檚 health law are emboldened by President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 vow to scrap it. Others wonder why they should bother signing up.
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Podcast: The GOP’s Path To ‘Repeal And Replace’ May Not Be So Easy
KHN's Julie Rovner and Mary Agnes Carey, The New York Times' Margot Sanger-Katz and The Lancet's Richard Lane discuss the future of the Affordable Care Act under GOP control of both the White House and Capitol Hill.
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Some Panic, Others Shrug At Prospect Of Losing Obamacare
Consumers who feel they pay too much for skimpy coverage may welcome Donald Trump鈥檚 changes to the health law, but those who are sick are deeply worried.
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Despite Anger At Health Law鈥檚 Mandate, GOP Plans Could Also Have Penalties
President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that he would like to keep the health law鈥檚 ban on preexisting conditions. But that only works if insurers can be guaranteed a robust market, so Republicans must figure out a way to coax in healthy customers.
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Elections 2016
Republicans Likely To ‘Give Themselves Time’ To Set Health Law Replacement
KHN's Julie Rovner joins a panel on 'NewsHour' to talk about how the new Trump administration and congressional Republicans might seek to repeal and replace the federal health law.
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Concerned About Losing Your Marketplace Plan? ACA Repeal May Take Awhile
Republican efforts to get rid of the federal health law are expected to take some time to work through Congress and leaders have promised to give consumers time to adjust to those changes.
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Elections 2016
Millions Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Trump Plan
But block grants face likely resistance from states, poised to lose many millions.
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Elections 2016
Repealing The Affordable Care Act Could Be More Complicated Than It Looks
Republicans will likely chip away at the ACA piecemeal and say they will try to provide a soft exit.
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Elections 2016
California Faces Major Reversal If Trump, Congress Scrap Health Law
Uninsured Californians could more than double to 7.5 million if Affordable Care Act is repealed.
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Elections 2016
Trump, GOP In Congress Could Use ‘Must-Pass’ Bills To Bring Health Changes
Some 鈥渕ust-pass鈥 health legislation next year could give the new administration a vehicle for some proposals that might not be able to clear political or procedural hurdles on their own.
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Uninsured In Coal Country: Desperate Americans Still Turn To Volunteer Clinics
Dire dental needs and other health problems keep Remote Area Medical鈥檚 pop-up free clinics busy in states like Virginia that haven鈥檛 expanded Medicaid.聽
By Sarah Varney