President Donald Trump declared Obamacare dead Wednesday after Congress passed its deeply unpopular $1.5 trillion tax overhaul bill. “Obamacare has been repealed in this bill,” he told reporters. Not only was he factually incorrect — as the bill only repeals the tax penalty for not having insurance — his statements were premature.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released its open enrollment estimate numbers on Thursday, revealing that approximatel...
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Some Missouri HIV-positive patients to lose health coverage as assault on Obamacare continues
Some HIV-positive patients in Missouri will lose critical health coverage in 2018, thanks to high costs and little marketplace competition. Many of the affected individuals live in rural areas, where access to health care is already limited.
According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, about 95 patients in 51 counties will lose coverage starting January 1. The state has begun notifying the patients of this change, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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ACA open enrollment is off to a strong start, despite Trump administration efforts to sabotage it
“ObamaCare is dead,” President Trump tweeted in May. It’s a tune the GOP has been singing for months as they have tried and failed time and time again to repeal the law. But it’s simply not true.
More than 600,000 people enrolled in Obamacare in the first four days of open enrollment, according to numbers released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services Thursday. At this rate, sign-ups are on pace to significantly exceed last year’s numbers in the first 12 days of the enro...
Virginia voters sent a loud message about health care
Voters in Virginia sent a message on election day: Access to affordable care matters.
A post-election survey of Virginia voters conducted Tuesday found that health care was a decisive issue in the closely watched gubernatorial race, with 67 percent of voters saying health care was the most important or a very important issue to them.
Those who said health care was the most or a very important issue to them voted for Democratic candidate Ralph Northam by a margin of 62 to 32. ...
The fight for Maine’s Medicaid expansion isn’t over yet
Voters in Maine elected overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to expand Medicaid coverage to nearly 70,000 uninsured citizens in a monumental referendum that would make the state the first to expand the health insurance program via the ballot box.
That is, unless Gov. Paul LePage has anything to do with it. The Maine state legislature has voted to expand Medicaid on five separate occasions, and each time, LePage has vetoed it.
Now, voters in the state have done the same, but in a s...
Maine embraces Obamacare, votes to expand Medicaid to 70,000 low-income people
Tens of thousands of low-income people previously locked out of affordable coverage got good news tonight.
Voters in Maine elected to expand the Medicaid program, which offers health insurance to low-income people. Before this ballot measure’s success, the state’s legislature repeatedly tried to expand Medicaid, but Gov. Paul LePage (R) issued five different vetoes blocking the legislation.
The Medicaid expansion is a major provision of the Affordable Care Act, bu...