Senate Plans to End Obamacare Mandate in Revised Tax Proposal Senate Plans to End Obamacare Mandate in Revised Tax Proposal:- Senate Republicans have decided to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance into the sprawling tax rewrite, merging the fight over health […]
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End to Health Care Subsidies Puts Congress in a Tight Spot End to Health Care Subsidies Puts Congress in a Tight Spot:- President Trump’s decision to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies ratcheted up the pressure on Congress on Friday to take action to protect consumers from soaring […]
John Kelly, Asserting Authority, Fires Anthony Scaramucci John Kelly, Asserting Authority, Fires Anthony Scaramucci:- John F. Kelly, President Trump’s new chief of staff, firmly asserted his authority on his first day in the White House on Monday, telling aides he will impose military discipline on a free-for-all West Wing, and […]
Shifting Dollars From Poor to Rich Is a Key Part of the Senate Health Bill The Affordable Care Act gave health insurance to millions of Americans by shifting resources from the wealthy to the poor and by moving oversight from states to the federal government. The Senate bill introduced Thursday […]
Repeal of Affordable Care Act Is Back on Agenda, Republicans Say Repeal of Affordable Care Act Is Back on Agenda, Republicans Say:- Under extreme pressure from conservative activists, House Republican leaders and the White House have restarted negotiations on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But efforts to revive the […]
Some Lawmakers Now Look to Bipartisanship on Health Care The sudden death of legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act has created an opening for voices from both parties to press for fixes to the acknowledged problems in President Barack Obama’s signature health law, as lawmakers and some senior White […]
Leaders Struggle to Unite House Republicans Behind Health Bill Leaders Struggle to Unite House Republicans Behind Health Bill:- The House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act faced an uncertain fate on Wednesday as conservative Republicans pushed to eliminate federal requirements that health insurance plans provide certain benefits to consumers. […]
House Republicans Turn to Upstate New York to Lure Votes for Health Bill House Republican leaders, trying to lock down the votes of wavering upstate New York Republicans, inserted a last-minute special provision in their health care bill that would shift Medicaid costs from New York’s counties to its state […]
Humana Plans to Pull Out of Obamacare's Insurance Exchanges Humana Plans to Pull Out of Obamacare's Insurance Exchanges:- Humana announced on Tuesday that it would no longer offer health insurance coverage in the state marketplaces created under the federal health care law, becoming the first major insurer to cast a […]
Tom Price Is Sworn in as Health Secretary Amid Senate Disunity Tom Price Is Sworn in as Health Secretary Amid Senate Disunity:- President Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Tom Price, took office on Friday with a promise to fix what he called a “broken health care system” that […]
