This open enrollment period, residents in many states across the country have only one or two insurer options if they purchase plans on the Obamacare exchange.
In Delaware, residents have only one. After Aetna announced it was exiting the exchange in May — leaving Highmark as the only company insuring residents who don’t get coverage through work — Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro said that he “would hope that our elected officials in Washingt...
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How one GOP senator went from saving Obamacare to being OK with undermining it
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) casted a pivotal vote over the summer, where she — along with Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and John McCain (R-AZ) — saved the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from being repealed. She didn’t just vote against repeal once; she voted against three different G.O.P. health bills and shot down another in September.
But on Tuesday, she said she supports legislation that most health experts say will undermine the current health law. In an op-ed in the...
Obamacare’s most unpopular provision is important. Here’s why.
Jim Cooke is looking to purchase health insurance this open enrollment period on Maryland Health Connection, the state’s Obamacare exchange. He usually pays the penalty for not having insurance, due to the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But for him, this year is different.
“It’s not urgent, I’d just feel more comfortable,” Cooke told ThinkProgress. “I’m 61 now, and I think I better have this coverage.”
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White House officials just called losing your health insurance a tax break
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday that the president “is not going to sign a bill that raises taxes on the middle class, period.” Unfortunately for Mulvaney, both the House and Senate tax bills would do just that, but he’s now trying to spin millions of people losing their health insurance as them getting a tax break.
While both plans vary as to what deductions are maintained or repealed and the timing of whe...
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...