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CBO Predictions About Senate Health Care Bill are Deeply Flawed
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office published its estimate of the Senate’s draft health care legislation, the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Democrats are trumpeting the claim that under the G… Read More »
Insurer Anthem to Leave Ohio, Thinning the ACA Marketplace
One of the nation's biggest health insurers says it will not return to Ohio's public insurance exchanges next year, a decision that could open more holes in the Affordable Care Act's increasingly thin… Read More »
Yes, Obamacare Really Does Disadvantage Disabled Americans
Obamacare provides states with a greater incentive to expand Medicaid to able-bodied adults than to cover services for individuals with disabilities.
States receive a 95 percent match this year (decl… Read More »
The Push for National Single Payer Health Care
As the Republican Congress struggles to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, the political landscape is steadily shifting.
Since the Democratic Congress enacted Obamacare in 2010 (without a single Republi… Read More »
19th Obamacare Co-op Folds, Leaving Only 4 Operating in 2018
Minuteman Health of Massachusetts and New Hampshire announced it is withdrawing from the Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2018, leaving only four co-ops in operation. The co-op will stop writing busin… Read More »
The country's largest health-insurance company is almost entirely quitting Obamacare
The country's largest healthcare company is getting out of the Obamacare business.
United Healthcare, which currently covers the most Americans in the US (pending the proposed Anthem-Cigna merger), s… Read More »
Sanders Adviser: Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Plan Would Increase Total Federal Spending by 55 Percent (at Least)
Yesterday, the Bernie Sanders campaign put out a fiscal score for Sanders’ plan to replace the entire U.S. health-care system with a government-run single-payer regime. The score was generated by Gera… Read More »
More than half of U.S. doctors experience burnout
(Reuters Health) - Burnout among U.S. doctors is becoming more common and now affects more than half of practicing physicians, according to a new study.
About 54 percent of U.S. doctors experienced a… Read More »
UnitedHealth warns it may exit Obamacare plans
The nation's largest health insurer warned Thursday that it may pull out of the Obamacare exchanges after 2016 – forcing more than a half million people to find other coverage – after low enrollment … Read More »
More Than Half of Obamacare Co-Ops Are Closing
More than half of the 23 co-ops created under Obamacare are closing, the Associated Press reported.
Arizona’s co-op Meritus Health Partners and Michigan’s Consumers Mutual Insurance went out of busin… Read More »
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