Despite barriers in the first year the government compensated doctors for these conversations, many patients had advanced planning discussions.
Month: November 2017
Key GOP senator backs Obamacare individual mandate repeal
Sen. Lisa Murkowski did not say if she supports the Senate GOP tax plan
Enrollment in ACA health-care plans is still running ahead of last year
Nearly 2.28 million people have chosen Affordable Care Act coverage for 2018 in the states relying on the federal marketplace.
Murkowski backs general GOP plan to repeal Obamacare
The Alaska Republican previously opposed proposals that repealed the health care law
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How one GOP senator went from saving Obamacare to being OK with undermining it
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) casted a pivotal vote over the summer, where she — along with Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and John McCain (R-AZ) — saved the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from being repealed. She didn’t just vote against repeal once; she voted against three different G.O.P. health bills and shot down another in September.
But on Tuesday, she said she supports legislation that most health experts say will undermine the current health law. In an op-ed in the...
Murkowski ready to prioritize Arctic drilling over healthcare
In an op-ed published in a local Alaskan paper last week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced that she supports repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, saying that she “always supported the freedom to choose.”
Murkowski was a key vote in stopping repeal of the Affordable Care Act earlier this year, but there’s one crucial difference this time around: repealing the individual mandate is tied to the Republican’s tax bill, which also inclu...
