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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 ...
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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 »Just After Trump Blamed High Drug Prices On Campaign Cash, Drugmakers Gave More
“The cost of medicine in this country is outrageous,” President Donald Trump said at a rally in Louisville, Ky., two months after his inauguration. He ...
Read More »Paid Family And Medical Leave May Be The Idea That Transcends Politics
By Steven Findlay Tameka Henry takes care of her disabled husband, her 87-year-old grandfather and her four children, ages 10 to 16. Two of her ...
Read More »AMA Urges Congress to Reject Efforts to ‘Repeal and Replace’ Obamacare
The American Medical Association (AMA) today outlined its opposition to current efforts in the U.S. Senate aimed at replacing or repealing the Affordable Care Act, ...
Read More »Current Health Care Debate Finds Veterans Supporting Obamacare
By Stephanie O’Neill Air Force veteran Billy Ramos, from Simi Valley, Calif., is 53 and gets health insurance for himself and for his family from Medicaid — ...
Read More »In interviews, Trump sounds like he does not understand health care
By Julie Rovner Lost in all the coverage of the firing of FBI Director James Comey last week were a pair of in-depth interviews President ...
Read More »Congressional Budget Office says 23 million will lose health care under GOP plan
The new health care bill passed last month by the House would decrease the number of insured Americans by 23 million over 10 years if ...
Read More »Trump extends deadline for states to meet Medicaid standards
By Phil Galewitz The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services ...
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