Tax Day Is Zero Hour For Health Insurance, Too
People who don鈥檛 have insurance coverage or get federal assistance to pay their insurance premiums need to take a little extra care when completing their tax forms.
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Grasping For The Middle Ground On Obamacare
A University of Southern California professor says conservatives and liberals should split the difference: Scrap the exchanges and expand Medicaid.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Repeal, Replace 鈥 Revise: Your Guide To How A Trump Proposal Might Change ACA Insurance
Even though the GOP health plan is stalled by intraparty negotiations, some big insurance changes are still in the works.
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GOP Bills To Replace Obamacare Do Not Tinker With Lawmakers’ Coverage
Republicans are hoping to overhaul the federal health law. Among the law鈥檚 many provisions is a requirement that members of Congress and their staffs buy their health insurance on the law鈥檚 marketplaces.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Death By 1,000 Cuts: How Republicans Can Still Alter Your Coverage
There are many ways beyond legislative repeal for the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to unravel the Affordable Care Act.
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While Washington Fiddles, Calif. Leaders Forge Ideas For Universal Health Care
But it could take years to achieve coverage for everyone 鈥 if it happens at all.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
GOP Has No Choice But To Keep Pushing Health Care Rock Up The Hill
The White House continues to look for a policy 鈥渨in鈥 while members of the House are concerned about heading home for the spring recess where they could 鈥済et hammered鈥 for not fulfilling their promise to repeal Obamacare.
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CMS Chief To Sit Out Watershed Decision On Medicaid Work Mandate In Kentucky
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma will recuse herself from the agency's decision-making on whether to approve Kentucky鈥檚 Medicaid waiver because she helped develop the proposal in her former job as a health policy consultant.
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鈥業t鈥檚 Not Like Other States鈥: High-Cost Alaska Sits In The Eye Of Health Reform Storm
With the most expensive medical care and health insurance premiums in the nation, Alaska seeks a novel way to bail out Obamacare.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
For Better Or Worse, Trump And GOP Now Own Health Care
More than six in 10 people think that moving forward the responsibility for dealing with the health law falls to President Donald Trump and Republicans controlling Congress, Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds.
By Julie Rovner -
Repeal & Replace Watch
Where There’s Willingness, There’s A Way For Congress And Trump To Fix Health Law
After the collapse of the Republican replacement plan, there may be a way to find consensus and repair the law.
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Trump’s Effort To Lure Consumers To Exchanges Could Bring Skimpier Plans
The changes proposed by the administration for the health law marketplaces in 2018 could increase customers鈥 out-of-pocket costs and reduce the amount they receive in premium tax credits.
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The Next Obamacare Battleground: Subsidies For Out-Of-Pocket Costs 聽
Exchange enrollees and insurers fret over a lawsuit that could end federal help with copays and deductibles.
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Workers Who Give Care To The Homebound Often Can鈥檛 Afford To Get Their Own
These workers, who generally do not get health insurance from their employers and fall through public assistance coverage gaps, gained some relief under Obamacare.
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Women With Coverage For IVF More Likely To Have Procedure Again, Give Birth
After four cycles of IVF, women with insurance had a 57 percent probability of giving birth while a woman without coverage had a 51 percent chance, a study in JAMA reports.
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New Vaccine Recommendation Cuts Number Of HPV Shots Children Need
The vaccine protects kids against infection and several types of cancer but many parents have been reluctant to use it for their children.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Insurers May Notch Bigger Profits From Fewer Customers In 鈥楾rumpcare鈥
As Congress and the White House try to strike a bargain on an Obamacare repeal plan, the insurance industry likes what it鈥檚 seeing.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Popular Guarantee For Young Adults鈥 Coverage May Be Health Law鈥檚 Achilles’ Heel
Republicans and Democrats don鈥檛 agree on much these days, but both parties want to keep the health law鈥檚 provision to allow adults to stay on their parents鈥 plan until age 26. But that could be hurting the marketplace鈥檚 insurance pools.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Late Move To Dump 鈥楨ssential鈥 Benefits Could Strand Chronically Ill
Republicans seek lower cost and more choice for health insurance sold to individuals, but cutting coverage standards could leave fewer comprehensive plans, analysts say.
By Jay Hancock -
Repeal & Replace Watch
In Deep-Blue State, Millions in Reddish Heartland Are Counting On Medicaid
The prospect of cutbacks has led to agitation and activism in California's largely agricultural Central Valley, with relatively high poverty rates and a significant number of Trump voters.