CEO of UnitedHealth Group said his company will return profits earned from Affordable Care Act plans to customers
Executives from five of the country’s largest health insurance companies appeared before Congress on Thursday as lawmakers examined why healthcare has become increasingly harder for Americans to afford.
In one effort to address the affordability crisis, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, Stephen Hemsley, announced that the nation’s largest insurance company will rebate profits made this year from its Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans to customers, while adding it was a relatively small participant in the ACA individual market.
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People in the US: how has the end of Affordable Care Act subsidies affected you?
Premiums have risen for at least 22 million Americans – we’d like to hear about the impact on your household
Enhanced subsidies that have kept health insurance premiums affordable for millions of Americans who use the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expired at the end of last year.
Premiums have risen sharply for at least 22 million Americans who purchased their coverage through the ACA marketplaces using the tax credits, according to research.
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What a GOP trifecta means for health care
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Trump’s queasy prescription to ‘make America healthy again’ takes shape
Jumble of proposals include ‘massive reform of Obamacare’ and giving anti-vaxxer RFK Jr the helm of health agencies
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From assertions that America’s highest-profile vaccine critic would lead health agencies to new promises for “massive reform” of Obamacare, the chaotic last week of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign will probably serve as a preview of what “Make America healthy again” could mean should the former president regain power.
The jumble of proposals echoed conservative policy documents, channeled the residual anger of the post-pandemic anti-vaccine movement and alarmed experts who help set the nation’s health policies.
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Vance and Trump try to soften health care approach
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Budget 2024: Liberals look to offset drug plan cost with higher smoking, vaping taxes
The increased cash flow coincides with the launch of a new $1.5-billion drug plan to offer universal coverage for contraceptive and diabetes medications.
Pharmacare deal would cover birth control, diabetes meds: sources
The Liberals and NDP have agreed to cover birth control through a single-payer program as part of the pharmacare deal and are also in talks to include diabetes drugs.
B.C. becomes first province to provide universal coverage for opioid treatments
Health Minister Adrian Dix says in a news release that full coverage of the medications will be available to all B.C. residents with an active medical services plan.
The percentage of Americans skipping medical care because of cost is back at pre-Obamacare levels
More Americans than ever before had health insurance coverage in 2022, thanks to Medicaid’s continuous enrollment, a feature of the covid emergency. And yet at the same time, 28% of people in the US chose to skip medical care due to costs—the highest percentage since Obamacare, or Affordable Care Act, became…
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A Texas ruling threatens to take away several free preventive health services for Americans
One of the most important changes Americans experienced with the onset of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was that a large suite of preventive services and treatments—from contraceptives to heart monitoring to mammograms—had to be covered in full by insurance policies. But a new ruling could change that.
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