Obamacare

North Carolina has embarked on an ambitious attempt to shift health care payments so they reward the value of care, not the volume. Working largely through Medicaid and North Carolinas dominant private health insurer, the state is also addressing social and e…

RALEIGH, N.C. - Two top Obamacare officials spent years in their Washington offices, right next door for a time, thinking about how to fix health care. Then both came to North Carolina, determined to put their ideas to the test in the real world. One runs th…

Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli speaks about immigration policy at the White House on August 12, 2019 Win McNamee/Getty Images Win McNamee/Getty Images President Trump has told Republican allies in the Senate that…

Several Democrats on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a hearing Wednesday derided short-term health-insurance plans as junk, accusing the Trump administration of “sabotaging the health care system with a rule that expanded peoples ability to purcha…

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The premium for the most popular health insurance plan in the federal exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act is set to drop 4% next year — and it will be coupled with a boost in the number of insurers offering plans. The Centers for Medicare and Medi…

NEW YORK: Monthly premiums for an average 2020 Obamacare health insurance plan will fall about 4 percent from this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Trump administration, which has tried to dismantle the program. The Trump administration ha…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Monthly premiums for an average 2020 Obamacare health insurance plan will fall about 4 percent from this year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Trump administration, which has tried to dismantle the program. The Trump admin…

Prices and other information about next years Affordable Care Act plans in the 13 states that have their own marketplaces will be announced by those states. In all, 10.6 million people had health plans through the federal and state marketplace plans as of Mar…

Obamacare premiums for midlevel plans will fall by 4% next year, bucking predictions that premiums would soar after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans made changes to the healthcare law. The drop in 2020 premiums, announced Tuesday, mark…