The measure within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires insurance companies to cover certain preventive care services with no cost-sharing has been restored for the time being after the two parties in the case over its legality struck a deal.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the two parties to reach an agreement last week when discussing a potential stay of a lower court's order that blocked the ACA preventive care provision on the basis that it violated a relig...
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Appeals court to hear arguments on ObamaCare case
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Top Democrats ask health insurers for response to ObamaCare preventive care ruling
Democrats on key House and Senate health committees have requested information from a dozen major health insurance companies and trade groups on how they plan to respond to the ruling from Texas that struck down the preventive services provision in the Affordable Care Act.
The lawmakers sent out letters to major insurance providers including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth Group. The letters asked whether consumers would experience interruptions in their c...
ACLU sues Indiana over law banning transgender care for youth
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Indiana for its law that banned all gender-affirming care for minors that was signed by the state’s governor Wednesday, saying the statute violates patient rights.
The national and Indiana state branch of the ACLU filed the suit in a federal court after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed the bill that saw his state join at least 12 others that have restricted or banned such care.
But the lawsuit file...
Five things to know about the Texas ObamaCare ruling
An ObamaCare requirement that health insurance must cover preventive services for free is at risk of ending, after a federal judge in Texas — who previously held that the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional — invalidated it.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor wasn't entirely unexpected, but his decision to impose a nationwide injunction still sent shockwaves through the health system. The preventive services mandate is extremely popular and ending ...
Judge strikes down ObamaCare’s free HIV drugs, cancer screenings
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Democrats mark 13 years of the Affordable Care Act
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These 10 states have not expanded Medicaid
State lawmakers in North Carolina reached a deal Thursday on Medicaid expansion, ending a decadelong fight in the state over whether to accept federal funding to expand the program that will provide health coverage to low-income adults.
The agreement in North Carolina on the 13th anniversary of the Obama-era Affordable Care Act, which offered the Medicaid expansion to states, knocks one more state off the list of Medicaid expansion holdouts, as an overwhelming majority of stat...
Biden to go on offensive against Republicans over budget fight in Virginia speech
President Biden is set to go in on congressional Republicans on Tuesday while giving a speech in Virginia Beach where he is expected to blast the lawmakers for seeking cuts to programs like Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Legislators are in the midst of negotiating a federal budget and seeking to avoid a potential default on the national debt. The White House has called for the debt ceiling to be raised and Biden is refusing to negotiate over this matter, a stance th...
Subsidies have boosted Affordable Care Act’s enrollment. It’s setting up a potential fight
Health insurance sign-ups through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) jumped by nearly 2 million during the most recent enrollment period, which ended in mid-January, totaling 16.3 million people.
The gains suggest the program known as Obamacare is going strong, despite repeated efforts by Republicans to kill it.
It also suggests subsidies provided to the program through two massive pieces of legislation spearheaded by President Biden had an influen...