Obamacare

”You’ve got first responders, firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses other health care professionals, people who run pharmacies and grocery stores and drive trucks who’ve been working 24 hours a day,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). “And you’ve got lawmakers who have been absent in recess for about six weeks.” “This…

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalised late on Tuesday with an infection caused by a gallstone, still took part in the court's arguments by telephone on Wednesday. During arguments in a case involving a dispute over an Obamacare requirement regarding health insurance coverage for women's birth…

Attorney General William Barr in Washington, D.C. February 6, 2020 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly tried to convince members of the Trump administration that they should abandon their efforts to have the Supreme Court strike down all of Obamacare ahead of the November election. Barr told Vice President…

A woman reads a leaflet at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, Calif., in 2014. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) This is not a recipe for government by the people.One of the big asymmetries in today’s Washington is that our system’s rules and procedures make it much easier to increase spending than…

Coleman Drake, University of Pittsburgh and David Anderson, Duke University With an eye on replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration took one particularly critical action in October 2017. It discontinued cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments to health insurers participating in the ACA marketplaces. But the response to those cuts…

With an eye on replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration took one particularly critical action in October 2017. It discontinued cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments to health insurers participating in the ACA marketplaces. But the response to those cuts was likely not what President Trump expected. State insurance commissioners…

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. You can read it here.With an eye on replacing the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration took one particularly critical action in October 2017. It discontinued cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments to health insurers participating in the ACA marketplaces.But the response to those cuts…

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"Q: Did Marco Kill Obamacare?" asked a 2015 tweet from the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., before presumptively answering the question: "A: You bet he did."  Q: Did Marco Kill Obamacare? A: You bet he did.https://t.co/PTkpe0f95L via @LegInsurrection — Team Marco (@TeamMarco) November 24, 2015 OK, so who…

Insurance companies are entitled to recoup $12 billion from the federal government in unpaid Obamacare claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in an 8-1 vote. The companies were shielded under the "risk corridor" provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which promised compensation for companies that incurred losses in the marketplaces…