Obamacare

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court in New Orleans temporarily put on hold Monday a federal judge’s ruling striking down a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires most insurers to cover preventative care including vaccines and screenings for cancer, diabetes and HIV. Without comment, the 5th U.S.…

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is supporting new state legislation that would establish an Illinois health care insurance exchange, an effort to protect an important Affordable Care Act provision in Illinois in the event future federal leaders ever look to roll back parts of the landmark law. The proposed legislation in Illinois…

American taxpayers are likely to subsidize billions of dollars in Affordable Care Act benefits for illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program under a plan by President Joe Biden. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a plan to open the Affordable Care Act, commonly known…

President Biden on Thursday gave illegal immigrant Dreamers in the DACA program access to Obamacare, saying they deserved the same right to health care as Americans. The move opens access to Medicaid, for those whose incomes qualify, and to buying insurance on Obamacare’s exchanges. Mr. Biden, in a video message,…

HHS will propose a rule amending the definition of ‘lawful presence’ in order to extend Medicaid and Obamacare coverage to DACA recipients...Read More

Congressional Democrats pressured the nation’s largest health insurers Thursday to cover preventive services such as mammograms, lung and skin cancer screenings and HIV prophylaxis drugs at no cost to patients while the Biden administration appeals a decision that struck down a key part of Obamacare. Five House and Senate committee…

Over the past few years, the hard-right majority on the Supreme Court has begun to emerge as a mounting threat to public health. As I wrote last June, the court’s recent decisions on abortion and gun rights imperiled American lives. Everyone can clearly see how far the court is from…

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says she blames Republicans in the House and Senate for failing to deliver former President Donald Trump's agenda. While speaking to CBS's 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl on Sunday, Greene discussed what led her to run for Congress. "What made me run for Congress was…

An ObamaCare requirement that health insurance must cover preventive services for free is at risk of ending, after a federal judge in Texas — who previously held that the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional —  invalidated it.  The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor wasn’t entirely unexpected, but…

Published by Reuters By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked Obamacare’s mandate that health insurance plans cover preventive care, including screenings for certain cancers and pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP), a…Read More