Obamacare

Yves here. We featured a Kaiser Health News article earlier this week on continuing legal challenges to Obamacare and what they might mean for patients. This post describes a new ruling that nixed the individual mandate and has put the rest of the law in play…

Memphis, Tennessee -- Amidst impeachments looming shadow, former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg is staking out the stance as the doer-in-chief ahead of the 2020 election. Rolling out part one of his health care plan Thursday at a cam…

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate, rushing to meet a looming deadline, approved and sent to President Donald Trump a $1.4 trillion package of fiscal 2020 spending bills that would end prospects of government shutdowns at week's end when…

Adding the time it will take for Judge OConnor to draft a fresh decision, his ruling might not emerge for nearly a year, several legal observers say. Then the appeal process would begin anew. Mr. Adler considers the ruling a punt, saying it has no practica…

The case turns on the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. There, after Congress decided it could not repeal the A.C.A., it did get rid of the penalty that had been associated with the failure to comply with the laws insurance-purchase requirement. A group of Republic…

An apparent setback for the Affordable Care Act is actually a win for health insurers.The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, struck down the laws requirement that most people carry health insurance or pay a penalty.That seems like a probl…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin On December 18, in Texas v. Azar, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the... Affordable Care Act's individual mandate was unconstitutional. Get…

Links 12/19/19

By: New York Times | Washington | Published: December 19, 2019 8:02:22 am A storefront of Sunshine Health and Life Advisors, a Florida insurance enrollment company, in Miami on Nov. 16, 2016.  (Angel Valentin/The New York Times)Written by Abby Goodnough A…

Fifth Circuit Rules Obamacare Individual Mandate Unconstitutional