Health CareNews
The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, authorized the Department of Health and Human Services to cut or increase categories of Medicare spending. Last… Read More
Health CareNews
Public support for Obamacare dwindled in July. Last month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that more than half of Americans view the law unfavorably, an eight… Read More
Health CareNews
Aetna has picked up 600,000 customers thanks to the Affordable Care Act. But is the company any more profitable? CEO and Chairman Mark Bertolini couldn’t… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Obamacare’s initial open-enrollment period ended in mid April. The big question since then has been, “What were the results?” Hard data have been lacking —… Read More
Health CareNews
With three months to go before HealthCare.gov opens again for business to Americans seeking insurance through Obamacare, congressional investigators and government accountants are sounding the… Read More
Health CareNews
Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with “saving” HealthCare.gov and now second in command at the agency overseeing Obamacare, yesterday ran… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Medicare’s true cost is the biggest problem in Washington and the one most ignored. The long-awaited 2014 Medicare Trustees report is out, and the “spinning… Read More
Health CareAnalysis
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled against a challenge to Obamacare’s individual mandate based on the origination clause of… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. claims that last week’s D.C. Circuit decision striking down Obamacare subsidies for individuals enrolled in federally-run health care exchanges… Read More
Health CareNews
A federal program designed to make Americans “healthy people” is getting broader. Healthy People 2000—launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The annual Medicare Trustees report was released today, detailing the dire financial status of the Medicare program. In large part, it reiterates what has been… Read More
Health CareNews
New details about Obamacare insurance enrollment show that employer-based coverage is eroding, offsetting gains made in individual insurance enrollment, according to a report released today by… Read More
Health CareCommentary
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen: two different federal courts of appeal, issuing completely contradictory rulings on the very same day, on the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This has not been a good week for President Obama: Obamacare is back on the front burners and back in trouble. This week, the D.C…. Read More
Health CareNews
Looking to require U.S. lawmakers to “play by the same rules” with Obamacare, this week U.S. Rep. Daniel Maffei, D-N.Y., introduced legislation that would eliminate… Read More
Health CareNews
Advocates of single-payer health care promise high-quality low-cost health care for all. But physicians in Vermont say the state’s move towards a single-payer health care… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Tuesday’s D.C. Circuit and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rulings raise new doubts over the future of Obamacare. At the heart of these conflicting decisions… Read More
Health CareCommentary
You don’t even have to be a real person to get Obamacare subsidies. That’s the takeaway from a report issued Wednesday by the Government Accountability… Read More
Health CareCommentary
After a full decade of Obamacare’s implementation, the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office (April 2014), estimate that after spending over $1.8 trillion on… Read More
Health CareNews
Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with saving HealthCare.gov and current second-in-command at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was… Read More
Health CareCommentary
Today the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to the Obama administration, ruling that the language of the Obamacare law only established federal… Read More
Health CareNews
David Emanuel wanted to cancel his private insurance plan with BlueCross BlueShield after he became eligible for Medicare, but was told nothing could be done… Read More
Health CareNews
Jarred by the defect-riddled rollout of the Obamacare website, Obama administration officials signed up a technology company to rid HealthCare.gov of its bugs. Now, though,… Read More
Health CareNews
Sen. Mark Pryor dismissed Arkansans’ grievances of losing health insurance because of Obamacare as “anecdotal,” accusing Republicans of solely wanting to complain about the law… Read More
Health CareCommentary
One of the biggest contributors to the nation’s spending crisis is federal spending on government health care programs, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s Long… Read More
Health CareNews
House Republicans propose to roll back major cuts in Medicare home health services, saying they want to help senior citizens and other Americans who face… Read More
Health CareNews
Under pressure to comply with the Affordable Care Act, some South Carolina businesses are cutting back by hiring more part-time rather than full time employees…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
Recently, the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released a report urging states to expand Medicaid. However, the claims in the report should be… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund claims 20 million Americans “gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act as of May 1.” But a closer… Read More
Health CareNews
According to a report released by the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this month, “the online federal… Read More
