The Trump administration is removing close to 750,000 people from Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage due to allegedly fraudulent enrollment, Vice President Vance announced Tuesday. The cancellations would save an estimated $2.2 billion in taxpayer funds. “These are not real people. We’re not paying insurance for non-existent ghosts,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story Trump promises Obamacare rebates to people in swing states, right before midterms President Trump said he’s planning to send $500 checks to about 1 million people who he claims were “massively” overcharged for Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage. Jacquelyn Martin, Associated...
The Trump administration is pledging to send $500 rebate checks to nearly 1 million Americans who the White House says were overcharged for ObamaCare coverage. In a recorded message posted Thursday to the White House account on the social platform X, President Trump alleged without evidence that the Biden administration was “massively” overcharging enrollees on the...
Democratic lawmakers and policy groups are all throwing their ideas for healthcare reform in the ring, but it remains to be seen what the party is willing to consider as it seeks to retake control of Congress. After the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits expired last year, and with no momentum to...
South Carolina Senate Democratic nominee Annie Andrews on Wednesday dismissed Medicare for All as an outdated policy as she seeks to become the first Democrat to win a statewide race in the Palmetto State in more than 25 years. “Medicare for All is a policy from a few decades ago,” Andrews, a physician, told host...
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday defended his endorsement of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong after her loss, while accusing some of “caricaturing and labeling” her “based on a few statements.” “I appreciate that Democrats can have differences over single payer healthcare, free childcare, pausing data centers and other issues @FrancescaHongWI fought for,” Khanna...
Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary, five days before early voting in the race begins. Warren, who previously backed state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) before she dropped out of the race earlier this month, cited El-Sayed’s support of Medicare for All, unions and taking corporate...
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie (R) on Wednesday said ObamaCare might as well be renamed “Trumpcare” as premiums increase and Republicans haven’t moved to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “Might as well call it Trumpcare now. Our party has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control of...
In today's issue: ▪ Platner drops Senate candidacy ▪ Trump’s promises at NATO summit ▪ Kentucky governor requests McConnell update ▪ ObamaCare hikes give fuel to Democrats The latest rounds of U.S. attacks on Iran are sending President Trump back into perilous territory four months out from the midterms. Trump ordered strikes on two consecutive...