On Friday, shortly before word of pending indictments from Special Counsel Robert Mueller sucked up all the oxygen in the news cycle, the Trump administration dropped a 365-page proposal including numerous potential tweaks to the rules governing Obamacare. Among other things, the proposed rulemaking from the Department of Health and Human Services could allow insurers to sell stripped down health plans in the Obamacare exchanges, potentially leaving people without coverage when they need i...
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The uninsured rate is rising as Trump successfully sabotages Obamacare
Providing some of the clearest evidence yet about President Donald Trump’s ability to undermine Obamacare even without the GOP votes in Congress required to officially repeal it, the national uninsurance rate is now on the rise.
According to Gallup, which has been tracking the uninsurance rate since 2008, the percentage of Americans without health care has been gradually ticking up since Trump was elected.
The uninsured rate had been on a steady downward trajectory sinc...
5 Ways This ACA Open Enrollment Period Will Be Different
Health analysts fear a general sense of confusion about the Affordable Care Act amid so many fits and starts in Washington to change the 2010 health law.
The acronym at the center of Trump’s war on Obamacare, explained
On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump, as he is wont to do, took to Twitter.
“I am supportive of Lamar as a person & also of the process, but I can never support bailing out ins co’s who have made a fortune w/ O’Care,” Trump tweeted.
I am supportive of Lamar as a person & also of the process, but I can never support bailing out ins co's who have made a fortune w/ O'Care.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) ...
Most people don’t know Obamacare open enrollment starts in 14 days, thanks in large part to Trump
Most people who are eligible for coverage offered on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace do not know when they can sign up for insurance. Open enrollment, the time period during which people can enroll in private plans offered on the marketplace, begins on November 1.
The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a leading health policy analysis center, reported its new findings on Wednesday. A majority of uninsured people did not know either when open enrollment begins (85 percent) or ...
U.S. senators reach bipartisan deal to stabilize Obamacare
Senators reached a breakthrough deal Tuesday on resuming federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has blocked.
BREAKING: Senators reach bipartisan deal to save key Obamacare subsidies
Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have reached a deal on “a short-term limited plan to stabilize health care markets,” Alexander announced Tuesday afternoon.
Alexander, the chair of the Senate Health Committee, said there was no guarantee from Senate Leadership that the bill would go to the floor for a vote, but that Alexander and Murray, the ranking member on the Senate Health Committee, were going to round up co-sponsors and then present the bill to Senate Major...
Regulator points the finger directly at Trump after approving massive health care rate increase
For years, Republicans have criticized Obamacare for making health care too expensive, misleadingly claiming that the law has led to skyrocketing costs. But now, the insurance industry and state regulators are complaining that it’s actually President Trump’s actions that are directly responsible for raising premiums.
Days after President Trump signed an executive order to allow people to buy skimpier, cheaper health care plans and confirmed the federal government will st...
Steve Bannon admits Trump is intentionally trying to ‘blow up’ health insurance markets
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon told a conservative crowd at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday that Donald Trump cut off certain payments to insurers as part of an intentional effort to tank certain health insurance markets.
“Then you had Obamacare,” Bannon said as part of a list of so-called Trump accomplishments that Bannon thought would please the crowd, “not going to make the CSR payments. That’s going to blow that thing up — gonn...
U.S. states sue after Trump scraps Obamacare subsidies
One day after his administration announced plans to end the payments next week, Trump said he would dismantle Obamacare "step by step."
