Idaho officials will allow insurers in the state to sell health plans that don't comply with rules set up under ObamaCare - a move that could test how committed the Trump administration is to enforcing the law....
Month: January 2018
America’s budget process swallows time but achieves too little
WRITING a budget should be about imposing order. In America, it frequently causes chaos. By letting funding for the federal government lapse on January 20th, Congress demonstrated, again, how hard it is for it to approve spending. The disruption might be worth it if America’s budget showdowns led to better policy. But they do not. Budget-making does not bring income and outlays into line. It does not allow lawmakers much opportunity to weigh competing claims on resources. And it fails to m...
The Health 202: Trump officials want to excuse more Americans from getting Obamacare
The individual mandate still has one more year in place.
2018 will not be the year the GOP repeals…
If the right is counting on 2018 being the year of the Affordable Care Act's demise, they should lower their expectations.
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Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Alex Azar as Health Secretary
Mr. Azar, a former drug company executive, immediately confronts two huge challenges: how to rein in drug prices and how to administer the Affordable Care Act.
Trump administration seeks new ways to allow people to dodge Obamacare’s individual mandate
People will likely be allowed more "hardship" exemptions from the health-care law.
First lawsuit filed against Kentucky’s Medicaid work rules. The health care of thousands is at risk.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) upended the state’s Medicaid program two weeks ago by imposing work requirements, premiums, and other administrative changes on some enrollees. Changes to the half-century program will move 95,000 people off Medicaid coverage, state officials said. Advocates warned early on there would be lawsuits, and on Wednesday, the first one came.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, National Health Law Program, and Kentucky Equal Justice Center filed the class ac...
Work requirement reenergizes Medicaid discussions in GOP states
The Trump administration's approval of state work requirements for low-income people on Medicaid may lead more GOP states to expand their health care programs, as the stipulation speaks to a conservative ideal of self-reliance.
The Health 202: President Trump may have inadvertantly boosted Obamacare enrollment
It seems the press helped spread the message.