Alex spends his days explaining how health insurance works to people in Florida. People who are enrolled in private plans on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace call a 1-800 number, and he’s there to answer any questions they may have about premium tax credits, coinsurance, and things of that sort. He’s a licensed navigator for the Community Health Interventions & Sickle Cell Agency Inc., which receives a federal grant for its efforts. And this time last month, he was temporarily...
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BREAKING: Trump expected to stop making vital Obamacare subsidy payments
President Trump is expected to stop paying vital subsidies that offset the costs for insurers of covering lower-income people, according to a report from Politico Thursday night.
The payments, called cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), are the subject of a lawsuit filed by House Republicans during the Obama administration, which House Republicans won. The Obama administration appealed and continued making the payments, which are worth an estimated $7 billion per year.
Trump can s...
BREAKING: Trump’s new executive order roils Obamacare marketplace with stroke of pen
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would allow healthy people to buy cheaper health insurance if they are unsatisfied with plans offered on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace. Why? Because the plans under the executive order offer much limited coverage.
Following the Republicans’ failure to pass their latest Obamacare repeal measure last month, Trump is using his executive authority to accomplish what Republicans couldn’t. Under the GOP bill, ...
Trump’s calling Democrats about health care now
President Trump looks to be turning to new allies to pass a health care bill after Senate Republicans failed yet again to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare last week.
“I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “ObamaCare is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!”
I called Chuck Schumer yesterday to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill. ObamaCare is badly...
Donald Trump rolls back rules on birth control coverage for women
Under the Affordable Care Act, preventive services are supposed to be free of charge to employees and their dependents.
Tom Price ouster complicates Donald Trump’s push to replace Obamacare
Price's makes it even more unlikely that Republicans will be able to repeal and replace Obamacare, even though they control the White House and both chambers of Congress.
Utah senator politicized bill that provides insurance to kids. Now his state is the first casualty.
Funding for the Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers 8.9 million children, expires Saturday because lawmakers were too busy trying to repeal-and-replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
CHIP provides low-cost health insurance to children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid. Enacted in 1997, CHIP is a companion program to Medicaid, where states had the option to set up an independent CHIP program or extend Medicaid eligibility to children up t...
Here are all the ways Trump could still sabotage Obamacare
Following the failure of the latest Republican health care bill, which couldn’t muster enough votes to pass, President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to promise, yet again, to kill Obamacare.
With one Yes vote in hospital & very positive signs from Alaska and two others (McCain is out), we have the HCare Vote, but not for Friday!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 27, 2017
That’s a good reminder that the pu...