Obamacare

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration may allow the sale of short-term health insurance plans, less costly alternatives to Obamacare that do not cover pre-existing illnesses. The decision was issued in Washington, D.C., by Judge Richard…

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration can expand the sale of short-term health insurance policies that dont meet the standards of the Affordable Care Act, a federal judge ruled, advancing the governments efforts to undo Obamacare. U.S. District Judge Richa…

Trump Win on Health Plans Advances His Effort to Undo Obamacare

The Democratic-led House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted to repeal a tax on high-cost health insurance plans under Obamacare known as the "Cadillac tax."  The 419-6 vote is a signal of bipartisan unity against a key provision of the Affordable Ca…

The House passed, 419-6, legislation Wednesday to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax, pleasing health insurers, unions and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers who have long pushed to scrap the levy. The measure would permanently repeal the 40% excise tax on h…

There may only be one source of bipartisan agreement when it comes to the Affordable Care Act — opposition to its revenues and cost-control measures. Nothing checks both of those boxes quite as effectively as the law's "Cadillac tax" — which is now…

Republicans and Democrats came together Wednesday to perform an act rarely seen on Capitol Hill: voting to repeal part of Obamacare. The legislation, the Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act, passed easily via a procedural process meant to expedite u…

Even some liberal economists, backed by the unions, are urging repeal. The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group, argued ahead of the vote on Wednesday that health care costs are already decelerating, so the tax is unnecessary both to pay for th…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The House is widely expected to vote Wednesday to finally kill the so-called Cadillac tax. Whether the Senate will follow is less clear, but the overall sentiment isnt: The excise tax on high-cost insurance plans has long enjoyed bipart…

Former Vice President Joe Biden repeated nearly verbatim a promise that President Barack Obama made a decade ago when marshaling public support to pass the Affordable Care Act. That promise proved impossible to keep. At an AARP forum in Iowa late Monday, B…