Obamacare

Auto enrollment, premium surcharges, and single-payer could be alternatives to open enrollment. Sunday night, on the final day of open enrollment for 2020 coverage, healthcare.gov appears to have had a meltdown. There were widespread reports of the insurance …

Retired coal miners and longtime opponents of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health plans are eyeing big wins as top congressional leaders and the Trump White House close in on a deal on a government-wide spending bill that's also carrying lots of overdue Washi…

Freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) is upset that she has 66 different insurance plans to choose from. Meanwhile, government over-regulation of the health care industry has left many Americans with only one. Sunday night, Ocasio-Cortez t…

Congress to Repeal Three Health Industry Taxes Intended to Fund Obamacare

WASHINGTON (AP) Retired coal miners and longtime opponents of Obama-era taxes on high-cost health plans are eyeing big wins as top congressional leaders and the Trump White House close in on a deal on a government-wide spending bill that's also carrying lots …

2020 presidential frontrunner Joe Biden told a stone cold lie during a campaign stop in San Antonio, Texas, claiming he helped find Republican votes for Obamacare when in fact every Republican lawmaker voted against it. “We need someone with the proven abili…

If you had to rank topics according to how fascinating they are, there's a good chance you'd lump insurance with taxes, somewhere near the bottom of the list. But insurance is probably at least a little more interesting than you suspect. (Hey, even taxes can …

Medicare Administrator Seema Verma (right) and Health Secretary Alex Azar are reportedly locked in a deep interpersonal feud that required the White House to intervene. | Kevin Wolf/AP Alex Azar and Seema Verma were called to the White House to settle their f…

South Carolina received federal approval Thursday to impose work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, fulfilling a demand of conservatives. The policy is particularly controversial because, unlike other states, South Carolina is not looking to couple th…

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma speak during a news conference with HHS Secretary Alex Azar, left, on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 in Washington.  Kevin Wolf / AP Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has su…