UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the largest national health care provider in the U.S., is planning to return profits it makes in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace to consumers in 2026. CEO and Chair Stephen Hemsley is expected to announce the idea when he appears before a House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Thursday,...
A push by Senate negotiators to strike a deal on extending enhanced ObamaCare subsidies is running into a brick wall as they struggle to clear a key hurdle on abortion. Members have been engaged in talks for about a month on a potential extension. But the subsidies expired at the end of last year and...
The timeline is slipping for a bipartisan group of senators to release a compromise to revive the expired enhanced ObamaCare subsidies, according to one of the lead negotiators. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told reporters Tuesday that lawmakers are looking at a deadline of the end of January to have a legislative framework ready. Moreno had previously said lawmakers would have text of a bipartisan deal as early as this...
The timeline is slipping for a bipartisan group of senators to release a compromise to revive the expired enhanced ObamaCare subsidies, according to one of the lead negotiators. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told reporters Tuesday that lawmakers are looking at a deadline of the end of January to have a legislative framework ready. Moreno had previously said lawmakers would have text of a bipartisan deal as early as this...
Preliminary numbers on Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace plan enrollment shows a noticeable drop when compared to last year's figures, an early indication that allowing the enhanced premium tax subsidies to expire caused people to defer signing up for health insurance. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported on Monday that 22.8 million...
A coalition of leading anti-abortion groups on Friday urged President Trump along with House and Senate Republican leaders to hold firm in demanding strict protections against ObamaCare subsidies being used to pay for abortion. The letter from Americans United for Life, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life of America and others comes just days after Trump told Republicans to be “flexible” in their demands for Hyde Amendment protections...
The House is poised to pass legislation Thursday extending contentious ObamaCare tax credits for three years, marking a hard-fought victory for Democrats and fueling hope among centrist Republicans that it will lead to a bipartisan compromise to revive the subsidies. The proposal has no chance of moving through the Senate as-is. The same three-year extension...
Nine House Republicans voted on Wednesday to compel the lower chamber to vote on a Democratic bill to revive ObamaCare subsidies after they expired at the start of the new year. Republican Reps. Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Nicolas LaLota (N.Y.) Robert Bresnahan (Penn.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Ryan Mackenzie (Penn.), María Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Max Miller (Ohio),...
Senate Democrats say they have concerns about some of the parameters of an emerging plan to extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies that expired Jan. 1, even as at least one of the Republican negotiators said draft legislation could come next week. One of the main sticking points for Democrats appears to be the elimination of $0 premium plans, which Republicans insist is needed to combat fraud. Under the emerging deal, according to Sen. Bernie Moreno...
President Trump on Tuesday told House Republicans to be “flexible” in their demands for restrictions against federal funds going to ObamaCare-funded health care plans covering abortion. “Now, you have to be a little flexible on Hyde,” Trump said in reference to the Hyde Amendment, the provision that prevents federal funds from being used on abortion...