Tag: ACA
Modest premium hikes as ‘Obamacare’ stabilizes
Millions of people covered under the Affordable Care Act will see only modest premium increases next year, and some will get price cuts. That's...
Lower costs, fewer benefits in new Trump administration health insurance option
The Trump administration Tuesday rolled out a health insurance option for small businesses and self-employed people that could lead to lower premiums but may...
Jim Carnes: Expanding Medicaid would improve Alabama’s health, budgets and economy
Imagine being an Alabama leader and having a tool at your disposal that could help families, strengthen the workforce, save rural hospitals, fight opioid...
Survey: US uninsured up 3.5M this year; expected to rise
The number of U.S. adults without health insurance is up nearly 3.5 million this year, as rising premiums and political turmoil over "Obamacare" undermine...
Daniel Sutter: Good Samaritans and health insurance
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes Americans without health insurance. The unpopular individual mandate violates personal freedom and was targeted by Congressional Republicans in...
Aetna pullout shows Obamacare on life support
While Republicans rewrite the Affordable Care Act in Washington, the immediate future of the law has grown hazier with the nation's third-largest health insurer...
Repeal in doubt, what Donald Trump alone can do on ‘Obamacare’
With prospects in doubt for repealing "Obamacare," some Republicans say the Trump administration can rewrite regulations and take other actions to undo much of...
Daniel Sutter: Coverage mandates and the cost of health insurance
The Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has stalled for now. The ACA’s effects on the insurance market include...
Some Democratic lawmakers seek to protect Planned Parenthood, abortion coverage
Even with the Republican failure to repeal Barack Obama's health care law, Democratic lawmakers in some states are pressing ahead with efforts to protect...
New Congress, all-GOP, same political divisions
With control of the White House and Senate and a commanding majority in the House, Republicans were supposed to brush off any challenge from...
