Beginning Saturday, Americans will be able to log in to the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange and choose their insurance plans for next year.
Nov. 1 has been a key date in the shutdown fight, as Democrats have long argued that if the enhanced federal subsidies aren't renewed by that point, the impact on consumers will be dramatic. Millions of people will see major price hikes on their plans.
The ACA's window-shopping period started Wednesday, revealing th...
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Republicans not on the same page about future health care plans
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Speaker Johnson says GOP working on Republican health care plan amid shutdown
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) is working with the chairs of three House committees to compile a Republican health care plan as the government shutdown nears the one-month mark and Democrats demand action on expiring ObamaCare subsidies.
“Republicans have been working on a fix for health care, we've been doing this for years,” Johnson said in a press conference on Monday when asked about the coming “health care cliff....
Many voters say health care unaffordable, are open to new insurance system: Poll
New polling has found that the majority of voters say health care in the U.S. is unaffordable and are open to a health insurance system that doesn't tie coverage to employment.
Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that works to eliminate medical debt and supports policies to prevent new debt, sponsored the poll which was led by the nonpartisan research firm PerryUndem. Along with a national survey, focus groups were also asked for their opinions on health care.
The pol...
Paul floats bipartisan commission amid Affordable Care Act subsidies battle
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called on President Trump to appoint a select group of bipartisan senators to a commission tasked with addressing the expiring health care subsidies — the issue at the core of the ongoing shutdown standoff.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” the libertarian senator suggested Democrats could agree to reopen the government for a one-month period, during which the commission would formulate proposals to address the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) t...
Idaho a precursor in continuing ACA debacle
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Federal judge strikes Biden-era ban on transgender care discrimination
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a former President Biden-era rule that extended federal health antidiscrimination protections to transgender health care.
Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled in favor of a coalition of 15 GOP-led states that sued over the rule, which broadened sex discrimination by adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected characteristics in certain health pro...
Johnson: Greene accusation that GOP ‘sitting on the sidelines’ is ‘absurd’
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday shot back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over an accusation that their party is “sitting on the sidelines” during the shutdown fight and as subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are set to expire.
“Well, bless her heart, that's an absurd statement," Johnson told CNN's Kaitlan Collins when asked about Greene's remarks.
"Obviously, these conference calls are monitored by media, so we're not going to have act...
Medicare agency recalling thousands of furloughed staffers for open enrollment
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is temporarily calling back all furloughed staff starting next week, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Open enrollment for traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans began Oct. 15, while the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace starts Nov. 1.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services shutdown plan, 47 percent of CMS staff have been on furlough since gover...
ObamaCare price jump hits Idaho first as shutdown deal remains elusive
Idaho consumers are getting the nation's first look at price increases hitting Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans as the federal tax credits that helped to trigger a government shutdown expire.
Idaho’s marketplace open enrollment began Oct. 15, as the future of enhanced premium tax credits remains in limbo. Marketplace customers will see markedly higher premiums than last year if the credits are not extended.
“On average, gross premiums, or the overall c...