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The future of the Affordable Care Act is threatened — again — this time by a ruling Friday from a federal district court judge in ...
Read More »Judge Strikes Down Affordable Care Act Putting Law In Legal Peril — Again
Trump Can’t Decide Healthcare Tactic While Promoting and Criticizing Obamacare
In the span of less than 12 hours last week, the Trump administration took two seemingly contradictory actions that could have profound effects on the ...
Read More »Trump Competes With Obamacare: Loosens Restrictions On Short-Term Health Plans
Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under final rules released Wednesday by the Trump administration. ...
Read More »States Attacking Obamacare Would Suffer Most If Preexisting Conditions Shield Gets Axed
If the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with preexisting medical conditions are struck down in court, residents of the Republican-led states that are challenging ...
Read More »Why Do People Hate Obamacare?
The Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” has roiled America since the day it was signed into law in 2010. From the start, the public was ...
Read More »Can Apps Help Patients Understand Medical Billing?
By Jocelyn Wiener Rachael Norman needed to submit a pile of out-of-network medical bills to her insurance company for reimbursement. Short on time, she started searching ...
Read More »Obamacare Shopping Is Trickier Than Ever. Here’s A Cheat Sheet.
Health care is complicated. Shopping for an individual health plan just got even more so, with President Donald Trump’s decision last month to block $7 ...
Read More »5 Things To Know About Obamacare As Enrollment Opens
By Julie Rovner and Julie Appleby Open enrollment for people who buy their own health insurance starts Wednesday and ends Dec. 15 this year. That’s 45 days, six ...
Read More »Republicans Fail, Again, To Repeal Obamacare
By Alan Lyndon Many of the nation’s medical associations were glad to see the end of the Graham-Cassidy health care legislation, which sought to repeal and ...
Read More »Adults Insured Through Obamacare Linked to Fewer Sudden Cardiac Arrests
The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest, an often deadly loss of heart function, declined significantly among previously uninsured adults who acquired health insurance through the ...
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