• Three years after Congress and the president enacted Obamacare, the nation's new health care system is taking shape one state at a time. (msnbc.com)
  • The slapdash way in which Obamacare was passed in 2010 led to a discrepancy in the way Obamacare's exchanges were set up. (forbes.com)
  • The Obama administration, as is its wont, simply ignored the text of the ACA and authorized the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies through the federal exchange. (forbes.com)
  • On the other hand, if the Court agrees with the challengers, that would mean the end of Obamacare premium subsidies in states with federally-run exchanges. (forbes.com)
  • On Wednesday, the hosts of The Cycle on MSNBC mocked Republican alternatives to ObamaCare. (newsbusters.org)
  • The Republicans - while it is true that they have yet to unite around a single plan - have produced several different specific alternatives to ObamaCare. (newsbusters.org)
  • We need a 2016 presidential nominee to not only prosecute the case against Obamacare, but also enthusiastically champion the conservative cause of putting families in control of their health futures. (newsbusters.org)
  • Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, though, Republicans have come forward this session to attempt to shape Minnesota's exchange legislation. (minnpost.com)
  • Arminda Murillo, 54, reads a leaflet on Obamacare at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, California, U.S. March 27, 2014. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Obama administration is still talking up the law, announcing via Twitter on Thursday that 100,000 people signed up for coverage on the "Obamacare" exchanges on Wednesday, the day after the election. (nbcnews.com)
  • Republicans actually like many of these aspects of Obamacare, which was loosely based on Mitt Romney's plan for Massachusetts when he was the Republican governor there. (nbcnews.com)
  • Much of the public debate has come because the average person does not understand what Obamacare does and what it doesn't do, said Timothy Jost, an emeritus professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an expert on health care. (nbcnews.com)
  • Frankly, everything that has gone wrong with the health care system for the past six years has been blamed on Obamacare," Jost said. (nbcnews.com)
  • Republicans are bogged down in their efforts to pass a health reform bill for one basic reason: they are too obsessed with repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) instead of reforming the health care system and solving people s problems. (independent.org)
  • Under Obamacare, anyone that was sick could purchase health insurance through the federal or state exchange. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • This meant that millions of Americans, who previously could not get health insurance at an affordable cost, now could under Obamacare. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • Under Obamacare, those looking for health insurance could receive government subsidies based on their income. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • The Justice Department asked a full federal appeals court Friday to take up a case that has endangered subsidies helping millions of low- and middle-income people to afford their health care premiums under ObamaCare. (foxnews.com)
  • With Democratic candidates finally touting the Affordable Care Act and many Republican campaigns abandoning their all-out war to destroy it, it is increasingly clear that Obamacare is here to stay. (perrspectives.com)
  • So it's no mystery why Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are running away from their pledges to repeal Obamacare "root and branch. (perrspectives.com)
  • At its core, the Republicans' scorched-earth opposition to Obamacare has never been so much about "freedom" or "limited government" or any other right-wing ideological buzzword as it has been about political power, pure and simple. (perrspectives.com)
  • Any citizen paying attention can discover that although fewer people enrolled in the Obamacare exchanges in 2014 than the CBO predicted in 2010, the CBO correctly forecast that the uninsured rate would fall by about half and that employers would not stop offering health insurance. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • Republicans who voted against the law and still clamor to repeal Obamacare believe the feds are heading for a nationwide failure. (politico.com)
  • Now that states have decided what they are going to do about health insurance exchanges-those new shopping carts created by Obamacare to help consumers find health insurance who do not get it through their employers-the really tough part begins. (kevinmd.com)
  • Since Obamacare asks states to create their own health insurance exchanges, you would like to avoid that option. (kevinmd.com)
  • The clever crafters of the Obamacare law recognized that they needed a fallback position-that if states weren't going to come through with exchanges of their own, the federal government would need to take over. (kevinmd.com)
  • That means if Republican governors like you stand tough against Obamacare, and refuse to create your own state exchange, you are handing control over to the federal government. (kevinmd.com)
  • The Department of Homeland Security needs to verify that people coming into the exchanges are legal citizens, since Obamacare does not offer health insurance subsidies to undocumented residents. (kevinmd.com)
  • Kemp got permission from the Trump administration to pull out of the Obamacare health insurance exchange. (stateline.org)
  • The Trump administration has given permission to Georgia to pull out of the Obamacare health insurance platform that provides Americans the opportunity to compare and shop for policies through a single government website. (stateline.org)
  • Republicans Are Still Talking About Obamacare Repeal. (reason.com)
  • called repeatedly for Republicans to defund Obamacare through the budget process and an upcoming continuing resolution. (reason.com)
  • It was politically ill-advised, and, as critics predicted, it did nothing to stop Obamacare (the botched rollout of the exchanges did far more political damage to the law than the shutdown). (reason.com)
  • the Republican Senate Minority Leader, often says that Obamacare should be repealed "root and branch. (reason.com)
  • In a debate last night, he said that the state could keep its self-administered Obamacare insurance exchange, Kynect, which McConnell has previously described as "unconnected" to the larger issue of Obamacare repeal. (reason.com)
  • at minimum, he is heavily downplaying the ways in which Kentucky's exchange, which, far from being "unconnected," was built using federal grants provided under Obamacare, and which offers subsidized coverage funded federally through the health law, would function differently without Obamacare in place. (reason.com)
  • There are several conservative replacement plans on offer, should the party choose to rally behind them, but all assume Obamacare is repealed first, and most focus on tax credit systems that would significantly alter the shape of the American health insurance market. (reason.com)
  • As it happens, these are exactly the problems that The Manhattan Institute's Avik Roy has attempted to solve with his recently released health care plan , which he pitches as a way of "transcending Obamacare. (reason.com)
  • This is not to say that Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are insincere in their belief that subsidies and a network of statewide exchanges for the purchase of private health insurance will destroy liberty forever, I'm merely saying that the campaign to convince voters and legislators that Republicans can delay or defeat Obamacare this month is a lucrative one, for many people. (salon.com)
  • Obamacare needs assistance from consumers, regulators, and health care providers to improve services to Americans. (hbs.edu)
  • It's clear that Obamacare is increasing the cost of health insurance for all Americans and making it virtually impossible for small employers to hire new workers. (nhpr.org)
  • If you owe a tax penalty for not having health coverage in 2016, don't expect an eventual Obamacare appeal to bail you out. (wskg.org)
  • That law aims to start giving lower-income Americans subsidies to buy health insurance starting in 2014. (cpr.org)
  • BOYD: We see this exchange as something that could well stand alone, whether those subsidies are forthcoming or not. (cpr.org)
  • One thing that could destabilize the exchanges, however, is if the Trump administration takes away the cost-sharing reduction subsidies that the federal government is giving to states to help low-income enrollees pay their out-of-pocket costs. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Basically, each state was expected to set up its own exchange, in order to receive the premium assistance subsidies. (forbes.com)
  • only exchanges "established by a State" are eligible for federal subsidies. (forbes.com)
  • Only 14 states set up their own exchanges, meaning that such a ruling would affect subsidies in the other 36. (forbes.com)
  • The amendment also prevents anyone who accepts federal subsidies for health coverage from purchasing a plan with abortion coverage on the exchange. (politifact.com)
  • However, the amendment does allow people purchasing insurance on the exchange to choose a plan with abortion coverage if they pay for it without federal subsidies. (politifact.com)
  • They say that relatively few women will be able to buy insurance on the exchanges without subsidies, making the exception for unsubsidized purchases close to meaningless. (politifact.com)
  • Fortunately, we agree with Roy that "bolstering the private insurance market, and focusing federal subsidies on the poor and the vulnerable," could improve exchanges. (vox.com)
  • The closest Republicans have come to discussing methodology is to accuse the CBO of overestimating the coercive effect of the ACA's individual mandate (the penalty for not buying health insurance) while carefully dodging the fact that the House bill substantially reduces the subsidies available to lower-income people that make health insurance more affordable. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • The IRS needs to verify consumer income information to see who qualifies for insurance subsidies. (kevinmd.com)
  • on January 1, 2014, the law's health insurance subsidies would kick in, and the millions of Americans would become dependent on the law for health coverage. (reason.com)
  • The latest battle, which the Supreme Court hears Wednesday, is over whether people who buy insurance through federally run exchanges are eligible for subsidies. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Now opponents of the law are challenging it again, this time contending that the text of the law does not authorize subsidies to make mandated insurance affordable in 34 states. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Those words stipulate that for people who cannot afford health coverage, subsidies are available through "an exchange established by the state. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • And the Internal Revenue Service issued this regulation, saying that subsidies would be available to people who signed up on exchanges in every state, whether state-run or federally run. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • That was the whole design of the law, the IRS says, noting that Congress never even discussed limiting subsidies to state-run exchanges. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • It says, you get subsidies if you make a purchase on an exchange established by the state," says Carvin, but the IRS wrote a rule authorizing subsidies for federally run exchanges as well. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Indeed, even Republicans did seem to assume that the subsidies went to everyone who needed them, regardless of where they lived. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a leading Republican, also seemed to assume that the subsidies would go to everyone. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • However, practically speaking, it is unlikely that many of them will be able to afford those plans without the federal government subsidies they received through the exchanges. (hbs.edu)
  • Around 85 percent of consumers buying insurance through the exchanges receive these subsidies. (hbs.edu)
  • Health exchanges are the online marketplaces where individuals and small businesses will go to shop for health insurance - and, for many individuals, get subsidies from the federal government. (nhpr.org)
  • The first are the subsidies - in the form of premium tax credits - given to individuals with low to moderate income to purchase coverage in the health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges. (medscape.com)
  • 3) The Minister of health shall approve the allocation of the subsidies of the republican budget for the activities - subject of this law, according to programmes, with exception of the activities under para 1, item 1 and 2. (who.int)
  • For months, journalists and politicians fixated on the number of people signing up for health insurance through the federal exchange created as part of the Affordable Care Act. (propublica.org)
  • Conservatives worry that setting up a state exchange will advance the goals of the federal Affordable Care Act, which they want replealed. (cpr.org)
  • WHITNEY: Mitchell and other conservatives worry that because the year-old federal health law, the Affordable Care Act, calls on states to set up exchanges, that if Colorado does, it will be inviting more federal control. (cpr.org)
  • For states that didn't set up their own exchanges, the Affordable Care Act authorizes the creation of a federally-run exchange as a backstop. (forbes.com)
  • A Trump Administration will work with Congress to repeal the ACA (Affordable Care Act)and replace it with a solution that includes Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and returns the historic role in regulating health insurance to the states," it reads. (nbcnews.com)
  • Under the Affordable Care Act, insurers cannot ask health questions of potential buyers. (independent.org)
  • A popular Republican criticism of the Affordable Care Act, repeated by Avik Roy in his recent Vox piece about the insurance exchanges, is that it has led to higher health insurance premiums. (vox.com)
  • Utah prepares to run its own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act [ KSL ]. (utahpolicy.com)
  • As part of the Affordable Care Act , every state must have a health insurance exchange in place by January 2014. (npr.org)
  • The abortion bill, passed by a vote of 61-34 in the Republican dominated assembly, bans abortion coverage under a private health insurance exchange set up under the Affordable Care Act. (huffpost.com)
  • With nearly $190 million in federal grants, Minnesota launched the MNsure exchange to implement the federal Affordable Care Act, which called for the creation of health exchange marketplaces for all 50 states. (startribune.com)
  • Republican senators spent the week trying to rally support for their latest proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. (npr.org)
  • SIMON: Senator, if the Republican plan is dead, are Democrats still going to want to work with Republicans or - in what if - what they really want is the Affordable Care Act left in place? (npr.org)
  • Passing an Affordable Care Act (ACA) stabilization bill should be a no-brainer, but Congressional Republicans have once again abandoned everyday Americans who will continue to see their premiums rise and consumer protections erode. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is the national grassroots coalition that ran a $60 million five-and-a-half year campaign from 2008-2013 to pass, protect, and promote the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and protect Medicare and Medicaid. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • Minnesota's version of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is now state law and has an official name - MNsure: 'Where you choose health coverage. (tcdailyplanet.net)
  • With premiums rising and some health providers pulling back, The Affordable Care Act might seem wobbly. (hbs.edu)
  • Some 2.6 million Americans would lose their jobs and the economy would shudder if a Republican-controlled Congress repeals key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without passing healthcare reforms of their own, a new study shows. (medscape.com)
  • Dispute Over Political Strategy Erupts Inside the White House - An Oval Office meeting involving President Trump and his top advisers on Wednesday devolved into a heated exchange between his former campaign manager and the White House political director, people briefed on the discussion said. (memeorandum.com)
  • Republicans warn Trump of 2018 bloodbath - A few weeks before Alabama's special Senate election, President Donald Trump's handpicked Republican National Committee leader, Ronna Romney McDaniel, delivered a two-page memo to White House chief of staff John Kelly outlining the party's collapse with female voters. (memeorandum.com)
  • The Act is based on tax reform advocated by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration. (wikipedia.org)
  • But Trump told the Wall Street Journal he would consider keeping two of its most popular provisions - one that allows adult children to stay on their parents' health insurance plans, and another that would forbid insurance companies from refusing to cover "pre-existing conditions. (nbcnews.com)
  • The Administration recognizes that the problems with the U.S. health care system did not begin with - and will not end with the repeal of - the ACA," the new Trump policy statement reads. (nbcnews.com)
  • Everything that goes wrong with the health care system for the next four years will be blamed on Trump care. (nbcnews.com)
  • For one thing, the Trump administration is going to worry about the political risks of leaving 20 million people suddenly without health insurance. (nbcnews.com)
  • They have forgotten Donald Trump s campaign promise to make health insurance better and less expensive and leave no one behind. (independent.org)
  • Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, tweeted, "Today the Trump administration approved a Georgia waiver to eliminate the exchange. (stateline.org)
  • In addition, President Trump signed an executive order in January that required federal agencies to waive or exempt health law-related provisions that would impose costs or penalties on individuals, to the extent permitted by law. (wskg.org)
  • Congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump have vowed to repeal the ACA and replace it with a more free-market approach to extending health insurance coverage to more Americans, perhaps preserving some ACA reforms such as banning exclusions based on pre-existing conditions. (medscape.com)
  • I'm going to try my best to discern fact from fiction, remove the propaganda from both Democrats and Republicans, and tell you exactly what this bill means for your healthcare. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • John McCain and I and a bunch of Democrats and Republicans are in favor of something we call regular order - we haven't done it a lot on real tough issues lately - where Democrats and Republicans actually work together. (npr.org)
  • The expansion would have provided health coverage for 17 million uninsured Americans starting in 2014, but the Supreme Court foiled the plan last year, saying the feds couldn't compel states to expand their Medicaid programs. (msnbc.com)
  • And most of all, it sought to provide health insurance to the 15 percent of Americans who did not have it before the law passed. (nbcnews.com)
  • Only 8.9 percent of Americans now lack health insurance. (nbcnews.com)
  • Thanks to the Democrats who made it possible, millions of newly insured--and very satisfied --Americans are enjoying health care coverage even as the worst practices of the insurance industry have been banned. (perrspectives.com)
  • Along with Social Security and Medicare, successful health care reform would provide the third and final pillar of Americans' social safety net, all brought you by the Democratic Party. (perrspectives.com)
  • Now it's Republicans who are bashing the CBO for estimating that 14 million Americans will lose their health insurance next year if the House Republicans' "repeal and replace" bill becomes law. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • We all know now that the CBO, like every other agency, think tank and human being, failed to estimate accurately in 2010 how many Americans would buy insurance through the exchanges come 2014 despite an intelligent and good-faith effort. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • Enrollment starts in October, and on Jan. 1 those online marketplaces are supposed to provide affordable health coverage for millions of Americans. (politico.com)
  • It's a technical argument about the wording of the law but, if it prevails, most experts say the result would be a chaotic unraveling of a system that in the past year has extended health insurance to more than 11 million Americans. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • So you believe bipartisan support is necessary to put health care into place for millions of Americans and not have it undone from administration to administration? (npr.org)
  • Some 90% of the nation's Democratic governors (18 out of 20) plan to build their own insurance exchanges, either independently or in partnership with the federal government. (msnbc.com)
  • By contrast, 80% of Republican governors (24 out of 30) are boycotting the effort. (msnbc.com)
  • Most of them have Democratic governors, but eight Republicans (from Arizona, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada and Ohio) have broken ranks to secure the federal assistance. (msnbc.com)
  • They all have Republican governors. (msnbc.com)
  • Hence, even most Republican governors will want to take the money. (forbes.com)
  • Barring any surprise last minute Friday announcements, in those 25 states - nearly all led by Republican governors - the feds must set up health insurance exchanges. (politico.com)
  • The Senate-driven decision in 2009 to let the states manage the exchanges was a political calculation that it would be smarter to let governors exercise more control. (politico.com)
  • But GOP governors didn't buy in to what they saw as a massive federal overreach into the health care system. (politico.com)
  • Of the 13 states that have so far said they will allow consumers to renew canceled plans, all but four are led by Republican governors and have generally been opposed to the new health care law. (nbcnews.com)
  • So far about a half dozen Republican governors, including Jindal, say they won't. (nhpr.org)
  • But as we explained in our examination of Palin and Joe the Plumber's statements, Obama's tax policy relies on the same progressive approach that has been the cornerstone of American tax policy since the federal government first collected an income tax in 1863, an approach embraced by Republicans and Democrats. (politifact.com)
  • The text of Obama's health law didn't envision widespread abdication by the states. (politico.com)
  • For the administration, it's a dangerous endeavor: the text of President Barack Obama's health law didn't envision widespread abdication by the states. (politico.com)
  • Responding to GOP criticisms of the exchange program at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care plan, Pelosi said Democrats "have come a long way" by agreeing to the idea, since they pushed hard for a public option and ultimately passed it in the House. (rollcall.com)
  • Many Republican lawmakers ran for office on a platform of opposing President Barack Obama's health care plan. (wkyufm.org)
  • Reid and his leadership team are assessing how Obama's proposed administrative fix to allow individuals to keep canceled insurance plans for one year plays in GOP-friendly states like Louisiana, Arkansas and North Carolina - where key Democratic incumbents are up for reelection next year, leadership aides said. (nbcnews.com)
  • WASHINGTON - A new Republican budget would repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul but put future retirees in a version of Medicare that strangely resembles one of the key cogs in that same plan. (pressherald.com)
  • A centrist, Wyden is co-author of a version of the Ryan Medicare plan and also voted for Obama's health care law. (pressherald.com)
  • Republicans attacked Obama's health care law for cutting Medicare by $500 billion, warning it could lead to hospitals going out of business, reducing access for seniors and stifling promising new medical technologies. (pressherald.com)
  • listed several ideas proposed by Republicans which he said would encourage insurers to stay in the exchanges. (medpagetoday.com)
  • For instance, the bill requires that insurers offering plans on the exchange that cover abortion also have to offer an identical plan that does not cover abortion. (politifact.com)
  • Nevertheless, insurers' bottom lines and stock prices are booming, while many of the carriers plan to expand their offerings in Obamacare's exchanges next year. (perrspectives.com)
  • Even leading insurers - which the White House once painted as the villains who stood to lose the most from health reform - largely are opposed to rolling back the overhaul. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Between the law's favorable regulations and its expected surge of newly insured patients, "investors know [health insurers] have a pretty viable future," Smolinski added. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The exchange has struggled to send complete information about enrollees to health insurers. (startribune.com)
  • Health insurers don't necessarily oppose the Lourey bill, but they've always supported having the exchange run by more of a public-private entity. (startribune.com)
  • The move came just a few weeks after the Department of Justice (DOJ) blocked a planned merger between Aetna and Humana, two of the largest health insurers in the United States. (hbs.edu)
  • Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren't working for either insurers or consumers. (hbs.edu)
  • It shows that 30 percent of insurers on the exchange (which were covering 40 percent of lives) made profits in 2014. (hbs.edu)
  • Insurers are skittish, however, about some of the Republican ideas, such as eliminating the individual mandate, and the continuing uncertainty about what the individual market will look like next year. (wskg.org)
  • Despite their protests about expensive risk pools in the ACA exchanges, the five biggest US health insurers have done well since the act was implemented. (medscape.com)
  • The vast majority of [state health insurance exchanges] are stable and working well," said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, that state's health insurance exchange. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Last week, the Senate DFLer who crafted legislation to create the state's health insurance exchange proposed scrapping the MNsure board and making the new marketplace a state department. (startribune.com)
  • On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration's public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. (hbs.edu)
  • The largest health insurer in the US, UnitedHealth Group, never really embraced the exchanges in the first place and has also suspended the sale of many of its plans on the exchanges for 2017. (hbs.edu)
  • Likewise, the states can expand their Medicaid programs to cover everyone living below 138% of the poverty level, as the health care reform law envisions, or they can refuse federal funds and leave people uninsured. (msnbc.com)
  • As these bar charts show, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas are all boycotting the Medicaid expansion, even though 20% to 24% of their residents still lack any health coverage. (msnbc.com)
  • The law was designed to achieve about half of its coverage expansion by expanding Medicaid, the 1965-vintage single-payer health care system for the poor. (forbes.com)
  • Despite the fact that the Medicaid expansion is quite costly for state governments, a majority of states-including quite a few Republican ones -have gone along. (forbes.com)
  • For example, they'd like to move people off Medicaid on to private insurance. (newsbusters.org)
  • Private insurance costs more than Medicaid. (newsbusters.org)
  • Finally, the argument Roy makes that Medicaid expansion is somehow not valuable because it has not improved health outcomes in two years makes little sense. (vox.com)
  • Medicaid] did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain. (vox.com)
  • Building it is no small feat. Each exchange requires an intricate network of software to determine whether someone qualifies for a federal subsidy and how much - or whether the person qualifies for Medicaid. (politico.com)
  • Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp's administration argued in its application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the change would spur innovation in the insurance market and lead to lower premiums. (stateline.org)
  • But McConnell has also undercut that message by saying that Kentucky residents covered by Medicaid under the health law are unlikely to lose their coverage . (reason.com)
  • On top of that, it calls for ending the federal entitlement to health care for the poor, turning Medicaid over to the states. (pressherald.com)
  • This means that SNAP, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance, and affordable housing benefits are all on the chopping block. (affordablehousingonline.com)
  • In a POLITICO interview days after the law passed in 2010, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius jubilantly described it as "the most state-friendly Washington-designed bill I've seen in a very long time. (politico.com)
  • There is a disconnect between the private dialogue and the public dialogue," on GOP health policy expert tells Politico . (reason.com)
  • Both parties are expected to propose changes to the overhaul in coming months, "so remaining neutral for now is a smart move, according to health care experts," Politico reports . (californiahealthline.org)
  • In more than 1,000 counties across the country, only one company offers health insurance on ObamaCare's exchanges. (freedomworks.org)
  • What's tripping up McConnell (and, to a lesser degree, several other Republican candidates) is the problem described by Cruz last year: With Obamacare's coverage expansion in place, and so many people relying on it for insurance, it has become nearly impossible to repeal. (reason.com)
  • In Kentucky, Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell was confronted by Rose Mudd Perkins, who spouted off about health insurance and a ravaged coal industry in a viral exchange. (cbc.ca)
  • An amendment to the House health care bill about abortion coverage continues to inspire political passions, driving a wedge between abortion-rights supporters who are outraged at what they consider a major loss for women's rights, and Democratic lawmakers who dread seeing their long-awaited reform effort potentially stalled due to the highly controversial debate. (politifact.com)
  • Republican lawmakers continued pressuring Democrats on Friday to compromise with the GOP on the implementation of Minnesota's health insurance exchange. (minnpost.com)
  • Now lawmakers have to come together on a single plan and secure Gov. Mark Dayton's signature on the bill before the end of the month - or face a federally imposed exchange. (minnpost.com)
  • Obama "sought to redirect some of the political blame for the botched rollout of the federal health insurance exchange to Republicans, characterizing GOP lawmakers as rooting for the law's failure. (nbcnews.com)
  • The debate puts Minnesota lawmakers alongside peers in other states looking to improve health insurance marketplaces that have fallen short of goals. (startribune.com)
  • The impact of the new numbers isn't clear because the Obama administration has not released details of how many consumers failed to pay their premiums and thus were dropped by their health plans. (propublica.org)
  • ProPublica requested data on the number of daily enrollment transactions on the federal exchange last year under the Freedom of Information Act because the Obama administration had declined to release this information, a key barometer of the exchange's performance, to the public. (propublica.org)
  • Our colleagues at PolitiFact Texas trace the origins to at least June 2008 when Perry told a Republican group that a European plan for cutting global poverty was "the type of socialistic program that Obama wants to bring to America. (politifact.com)
  • by Bob Kocher and Ezekiel Emanuel, who worked in the Obama White House on health care reform). (vox.com)
  • But what Utah Senator Orrin Hatch called a "holy war" to block health care reform didn't start when Barack Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, but instead when Bill Clinton was inaugurated in 1993 . (perrspectives.com)
  • They'll hand over the keys to the Obama administration, which will play an outsize and risky role in driving critical health insurance decisions that are typically the province of state governments. (politico.com)
  • And if it goes horribly awry, not only will the Obama administration be blamed, the entire health care law could be in trouble. (politico.com)
  • In the end, federal and state officials will want consumers to have a positive experience and will find ways to cooperate regardless of model," said Joel Ario of Manatt Health Solutions, who set up and for a time led the Obama administration's exchange office within HHS. (politico.com)
  • Obama "knows that in modern times, no major entitlement has ever been implemented and then unwound," Cruz told The Daily Caller in August of 2013, later noting that "no Republican has effectively refuted that premise. (reason.com)
  • Two years after President Obama took office with a pledge to overhaul the nation's health care system, and nearly 10 months after the White House-backed bill became law, well-worn talking points about the overhaul are getting another workout this month. (californiahealthline.org)
  • In one corner is the Obama administration, backed by the nation's hospitals, insurance companies, physician associations and other groups like Catholic Charities and the American Cancer Society. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • The House of Representatives is suing the Obama administration for overstepping its authority in the way it puts the health care law into effect. (freshair.com)
  • GROSS: So let's talk about how President Obama has been able to appoint so many federal judges when Republicans are blocking his legislation. (freshair.com)
  • Obama borrowed the same idea to make exchanges available to uninsured working families through his law. (pressherald.com)
  • Supporters say the huge health insurance overhaul could affect 1.3 million Minnesotans and provide a one-stop shop for consumers and small businesses to compare and purchase coverage while also significantly reducing health-care costs. (minnpost.com)
  • Pushing to repeal the law, Republicans say the overhaul is a totalitarian government overreach with budget-busting consequences. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The party also is touting a letter - signed by 200 economists and health care experts - charging that the overhaul will hamper job growth and damage the economy. (californiahealthline.org)
  • The exchanges, part of the federal health care overhaul, create new online markets where consumers will be able to buy individual private health insurance coverage. (wkyufm.org)
  • Early versions of the president's overhaul featured a competition between private insurance and a government plan. (pressherald.com)
  • As Republicans move to overhaul the health law, should people bother paying the penalty for not having health insurance when they file their taxes this year? (wskg.org)
  • The confusion stems from uncertainty over Republican officials' comments that they may do away with the individual mandate when they overhaul the health law. (wskg.org)
  • WHITNEY: The state legislature only has three more weeks to create an exchange through legislation. (cpr.org)
  • was a last-minute addition to the House legislation and passed due to support from Republicans and antiabortion Democrats. (politifact.com)
  • The chambers of the DFL-controlled Legislature this week passed different versions of legislation to establish a state-based exchange along near party lines. (minnpost.com)
  • Republicans offered roughly 100 amendments to the exchange legislation ahead of the House vote on Monday and had even more on hand during Thursday's 12-hour debate and eventual vote in the Senate . (minnpost.com)
  • It's unclear if Republicans will have the opportunity to shape the bill through the conference committee process, which is where the final legislation will come together. (minnpost.com)
  • Instead of subsidizing every dollar of health care spending, our legislation pushes the tax relief up front, subsidizing the first dollars spent, but not the last. (independent.org)
  • In another innovation, the legislation would encourage employers to help employees obtain portable health insurance that they own and can take with them from job to job. (independent.org)
  • The Republican governor added the amendment to health reform legislation that passed the General Assembly earlier this year, outraging abortion rights advocates. (tv3winchester.com)
  • Flanked by DFLers and commissioners who helped craft the legislation, Gov. Mark Dayton signed the health insurance exchange bill into law Wednesday. (tcdailyplanet.net)
  • The charged political atmosphere has renewed - at least temporarily - the nation's health care debate, the volume of which had steadily receded since the reform bill passed last March. (californiahealthline.org)
  • In exchange for lifting the nation's debt limit, House Republicans are demanding funding cuts in non-defense spending. (affordablehousingonline.com)
  • The other half of the coverage expansion would be brought about, according to the law, by creating regulated private insurance exchanges, in which those with lower incomes would have their premiums subsidized by the government. (forbes.com)
  • Their premiums would cover the cost incurred by insurance companies to cover those that were sick, balancing the scales a bit. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • While insurance premiums have gone up, they have actually gone up less quickly than in the past and 20 percent less than the Congressional Budget Office predicted in 2009. (vox.com)
  • Furthermore, part of the rise in premiums is a result of Republican obstructionism to policies like risk corridors. (vox.com)
  • Critics insist the opposite will occur and that it will result in higher premiums and fewer Georgians enrolled in health care coverage. (stateline.org)
  • After many failed attempts to repeal the ACA and President Trump's unrelenting efforts to sabotage the law, Congressional Republicans actually had a chance to undo some of that damage and strengthen the law instead of making disastrous changes that only increase premiums and decrease access to quality insurance. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • Instead, they decided to play more partisan games with our health care by proposing measures that would ban abortion instead of fixing premiums. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • Congress must pass a health care stabilization bill that includes funding for cost sharing reduction payments and increased tax credits to ensure American families do not face higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs because of Trump's reckless actions. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • The media and the blogosphere have done a reasonably good job of debunking the Republicans' criticisms of the CBO. (thehealthcareblog.com)
  • Governor Hickenlooper has been trying to get the House and Senate to come to agreement on an exchange bill, but if they can't, he has the power to set up an exchange on his own by executive order. (cpr.org)
  • Imagine, for example, that you are the Republican governor of a state that voted for Romney in the recent presidential election. (kevinmd.com)
  • The Republican governor, who had until Friday to decide, said the lack of information from the federal government was "scary. (wkyufm.org)
  • the top GOP budget writer, borrowed the idea of insurance exchanges, a big pooled marketplace, from the health care law enacted in Massachusetts when GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney was governor. (pressherald.com)
  • I think the public desire and perception - when there were challenges with the rollout - was for the governor and legislators to come in and fix it," said Sarah Greenfield, health program manager at TakeAction Minnesota, which pushed for creating MNsure. (startribune.com)
  • Republican pollster Bill McInturff advised Congressional Republicans that success in the 1994 midterm elections required "not having health care pass. (perrspectives.com)
  • Even though open enrollment has ended, enrollment and plan changes continue on the federal health insurance exchange, which covers 36 states. (propublica.org)
  • The data shows so-called "834" transactions, which insurance companies and the government use to enroll new members, change a member's enrollment status, or disenroll members. (propublica.org)
  • Charles Gaba, who runs the website acasignups.net that tracks enrollment numbers, estimates that between 6,000 and 7,000 people have signed up for coverage each day on the federal exchange after the official enrollment period ended. (propublica.org)
  • If the exchange exists in 2018, do you think there would be a special enrollment period allowed for new sign-ups like me when my current coverage ends? (wskg.org)
  • Under the health law, people who have certain life changes, including losing other types of health insurance such as COBRA, are entitled to a special enrollment period to enroll in coverage on the exchange. (wskg.org)
  • Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wants the administration's health care law repealed. (nhpr.org)
  • Republican legislators largely ignored implementing an exchange, a key mechanism of the federal health-care reform law, during their stint in the majority over the last two years. (minnpost.com)
  • Or will they be able to sign up on the exchange for 2018 after their COBRA benefits end? (wskg.org)
  • Then I was going to choose a plan on the exchange for 2018. (wskg.org)
  • We really can't expect health plans to [take care of] that. (medpagetoday.com)
  • And that's something that people have been complaining about with plans from the exchanges. (newsbusters.org)
  • Every dollar of waste that people can eliminate from their health plans is potentially one more dollar employees get to keep. (independent.org)
  • Under it, health plans must reimburse each other for the expenses of high cost patients who switch plans. (independent.org)
  • By contrast, our approach encourages health plans to specialize in the treatment of chronic conditions (cancer or diabetes, for example) and actively try to recruit patients who could benefit from their services. (independent.org)
  • It may make some of the big national health insurance companies more comfortable entering these new exchange markets, potentially lending consumers a more robust choice of plans. (politico.com)
  • In other words, it is going to take a Herculean effort just to get the exchanges ready to sort out which insurance plans at what cost are available to whom. (kevinmd.com)
  • People are not used to choosing among a slew of health insurance plans. (kevinmd.com)
  • By exiting from Healthcare.gov, the state will force Georgia residents interested in purchasing individual health plans either to work through private brokers or to approach individual carriers themselves, making it more difficult for them to compare plans. (stateline.org)
  • They also say that without access to the federal market, customers are more likely to be directed to substandard health plans that could leave them with either no coverage or substantial medical debt. (stateline.org)
  • with any of these plans, Republicans would be opening themselves up to a similar charge. (reason.com)
  • The trade group America's Health Insurance Plans vows that it isn't behind the new repeal effort - and for good reason, say financial analysts who watch the health insurance industry. (californiahealthline.org)
  • Pelosi got in a final jab before wrapping up her remarks over what she said is a clear difference between Democratic and Republican plans: "The proposals we have put forth end discrimination on the basis of pre-existing conditions, the Republican bill does not," she said. (rollcall.com)
  • Private insurance plans would compete directly with a new government option modeled on the traditional program in the Medicare marketplace. (pressherald.com)
  • You're more likely to get transparency with some public board meetings going on, rather than just having things going on inside an agency," said Julie Brunner, executive director of the Minnesota Council of Health Plans, a trade group. (startribune.com)
  • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov. Bob McDonnell wants to prohibit abortion coverage through insurance plans purchased through the federally run health care exchange that will serve Virginia. (tv3winchester.com)
  • Insurance providers will begin placing plans on the exchange website beginning in October, with purchasing set to begin Jan. 1, 2014. (tcdailyplanet.net)
  • The 838,000 consumers who were insured by Aetna exchange plans in 2016 will be forced to select other public exchange plans or purchase individual insurance outside of the exchanges. (hbs.edu)
  • I voted for you many years ago - when I thought you were moderate,' one woman told Grassley, who since 1981 has been serving the swing state that voted Republican in the 2016 presidential election after two terms backing the Democrats. (cbc.ca)
  • But before we declare the exchanges a failure, a 2016 McKinsey Company report suggests that the exchange market is still very much in flux. (hbs.edu)
  • As long as the so-called individual mandate - which requires most people to have health coverage or face a tax penalty - is the law of the land, you should pay the fine for not having coverage in 2016 unless you qualify for an exemption, said Tara Straw, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (wskg.org)
  • All told, between the federal exchange and 14 state exchanges, more than 8 million people signed up for coverage. (propublica.org)
  • Backers say an exchange will be a re-organized marketplace where people will have more choices, and more competition will keep prices in check. (cpr.org)
  • In addition to the online option, State Cabinet for Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes said more than a thousand businesses and another two thousand insurance agents are signing people up. (wkms.org)
  • These exchanges are designed to help people buy coverage if they are not currently insured, or if they work for businesses that are too small to offer health coverage to employees. (politifact.com)
  • If this happens, the law could end up diminishing the abortion coverage options for people on the exchange. (politifact.com)
  • People don't like having to go and think about health care as a financial decision every time they go see the doctor. (newsbusters.org)
  • It sought to transform the unruly, expensive and inefficient U.S. health care system by stopping what were widely considered insurance company abuses, such as dumping people when their health conditions got too expensive to cover and refusing to pay for pre-existing conditions. (nbcnews.com)
  • It puts into place gradual incentives to move from a system where people pay piecemeal for health treatments and, instead, reward doctors and hospitals for keeping patients well and managing their diseases. (nbcnews.com)
  • Instead, we give tax cuts to ordinary people so they can afford health insurance. (independent.org)
  • Under the current system, people with the same income get radically different amounts of tax relief (in some cases differing by as much as $10,000 or more), depending on where they get their health insurance. (independent.org)
  • An online health insurance marketplace such as EHealth could easily enroll people using off-the-shelf technology that has been available for years. (independent.org)
  • The idea behind the increased coverage was that by forcing a mandate, more healthy people would pay for health insurance. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • If these people then do get sick and look to purchase health insurance, it's going to be expensive. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • In this way, people who choose not to have health insurance and then get sick will no longer be able to buy healthcare at, what I can only define as, an affordable rate. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • To increase health care coverage for the uninsured and people in small business, the law sets up exchanges to encourage private health insurance companies to compete. (politifact.com)
  • Utah's Congressional Republicans are pushing a measure to protect religious people who oppose same-sex marriage [ Tribune ]. (utahpolicy.com)
  • In an appeals court filing Friday, the Justice Department said that if last week's ruling is ultimately sustained, the decision will impose a severe hardship on millions of people who are receiving tax credits through federally facilitated exchanges. (foxnews.com)
  • Now as for the past 20 years , Republicans have feared not that health care reform would fail the American people, but that it would succeed. (perrspectives.com)
  • But it may not be so clear to people and small businesses turning to the exchanges for coverage a few months from now whether it's a state or federal design. (politico.com)
  • The researchers, led by Anna Sinaiko (a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health) surveyed people who purchased healthcare through the Massachusetts health insurance exchange, also known as the Massachusetts Connector. (kevinmd.com)
  • But how easily do people in Massachusetts make their health insurance choices? (kevinmd.com)
  • It's time for the insurance companies to exist on the playing field of the American people," Pelosi said. (rollcall.com)
  • If the Supreme Court agrees with the challengers' interpretation, millions of people would quickly lose their health insurance and the individual insurance market could collapse in 34 states. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • An exchange is a clearinghouse of sorts where people and small business can go to buy insurance and also find out which tax rebates they may use to help them buy coverage. (npr.org)
  • I've heard people compare it to Expedia or Travelocity," says Lisa Kaplan Howe, policy director for NH Voices for Health . (npr.org)
  • Our Life, Health and Shopping desks provide you with well-researched, expert-vetted information you need to live your best life, while HuffPost Personal, Voices and Opinion center real stories from real people. (huffpost.com)
  • There are a number of states where either by documented shortcomings or structural experience, people are saying: We should look at doing something different," said Richard Cauchi, who follows health insurance issues for the National Conference of State Legislatures. (startribune.com)
  • They connect people with private coverage, plus federal tax credits that can significantly discount the cost of health insurance. (startribune.com)
  • Earlier in January, state officials disclosed a problem that has blocked some 7,500 people from using MNsure to enroll in public health insurance programs. (startribune.com)
  • People use MNsure to buy private health insurance, but the majority of those who've used the exchange have landed in coverage through the state's public health insurance programs. (startribune.com)
  • Agents like a bill from House Republicans that would have the state seek a waiver from federal rules, so that people could tap tax credits when buying off-exchange policies. (startribune.com)
  • HCAN has come back together to fight the Republicans' all-out effort to take away America's health care and put people at the mercy of the health insurance companies again. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • This is a day we're taking a major step forward to improve the quality of health care, the affordability of health care and to put the people of Minnesota in charge of their health care," Dayton said. (tcdailyplanet.net)
  • The law calls for a major expansion of the joint health program for people with low incomes - adding everyone with income under about 15 thousand dollars a year to the rolls. (nhpr.org)
  • The court did say the penalty some people will pay for not having insurance starting in 2014 is a tax. (nhpr.org)
  • Most people got health insurance. (nhpr.org)
  • The requirement that people have health insurance or an exemption [from the mandate] is still in effect. (wskg.org)
  • One strategy that has been discussed has been to broaden the hardship exemption so more people would qualify for it, which the secretary of health and human services has the authority to do. (wskg.org)
  • This coverage comes from a federal law that generally allows people who lose or leave their jobs to stay on the company insurance plan for up to 18 months if they pay the full price of coverage. (wskg.org)
  • Republican proposals to replace the health law typically include provisions that guarantee people will be able to buy coverage when COBRA or other coverage ends, said Timothy Jost, a professor emeritus at Washington and Lee University Law School who has examined and written about the proposals. (wskg.org)
  • Rather than focusing on being for or against Donald Trump's healthcare plan, let us focus on the health of the American people. (medscape.com)
  • Republicans have raised alarms about the Democrat-backed exchange since session began, and they say their concerns have largely been ignored. (minnpost.com)
  • Rep. Laurie Halverson, a DFLer from Eagan, was the only Democrat in the House to oppose the exchange bill. (minnpost.com)
  • Even the Senate Democrat who wrote much of the health law questioned a top HHS exchange official at the Finance hearing. (politico.com)
  • GROSS: So Democrats basically agreed to hold their fire except for extraordinary circumstances, and Republicans were supposed to adhere to that, too, should the majority turn Democrat in the next election. (freshair.com)
  • Concord Republican Rep. Lynn Blakenbeker voted in favor of the bill. (npr.org)
  • Essentially, the Stupak-Pitts amendment bars abortion coverage for those who choose the "public option," which is the House bill's federally administered, but privately funded, insurance plan. (politifact.com)
  • In addition, they say, insurance companies will be unlikely to offer abortion coverage because of the bill's logistical hurdles. (politifact.com)
  • The law spells out quite clearly that abortion coverage can be obtained on the exchange, even by those who are subsidized. (politifact.com)
  • On the one hand, (Ryan's) proposal repeals exchanges created under the health reform law to provide coverage for the uninsured, while on the other, sets up new insurance exchanges for already insured seniors," said Tricia Neuman, top Medicare policy expert for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, an information clearinghouse on the health care system. (pressherald.com)
  • Who Wins if Republicans Repeal Health Reform Law? (californiahealthline.org)
  • A recent Associated Press- GFK poll found that the percentage of U.S. residents who strongly oppose the federal health reform law has declined to 30%, the lowest rate since September 2009. (californiahealthline.org)
  • House Committee On Oversight & Reform Chairman Darrell Issa Demands Documents & Communication From IRS Relative to Healthcare Reform Law-Another Big Time Waster As States Who Refuse Exchanges Can or Cannot Tax Credits? (blogspot.com)
  • House Majority Leader Erin Murphy said there are significant differences between the House and Senate versions of the health insurance exchange bill. (minnpost.com)
  • The president-elect has a Republican-dominated House and Senate in Congress to help him try, but experts say full repeal won't be so easy. (nbcnews.com)
  • In fact, the Senate Conservatives Fund and Heritage Action, the political arm of the once well-respected Heritage Foundation, have spent more money so far on attack ads this year against House and Senate Republicans than the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic National Committee, combined. (salon.com)
  • And that's especially significant because like the rest of the country and the Congress in particular, the courts are really polarized between Democratic and Republican nominees on lots of high-profile issues. (freshair.com)
  • TOOBIN: Well, this, you know, has been a subject of deep disagreement among Democratic and Republican senators. (freshair.com)
  • Some of the reforms enacted by the Republicans have become controversial within key states, particularly the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductibility, and were challenged in federal court before being upheld. (wikipedia.org)
  • I have a hard time understanding how the administration expects to have exchanges up and running by Oct. 1, " Orrin Hatch, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said Thursday. (politico.com)
  • Dennis Matheis, president of the Central Region and Exchange at Anthem, a for-profit health insurer based in Indianapolis, Ind. (medpagetoday.com)
  • It's a bi-partisan bill, but Republicans were the only ones to argue against it. (cpr.org)
  • The partisan split in the legislature - 30 Democrats and 30 Republicans - heightened the impact of those defections. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Dayton called the partisan divide unfortunate, but Atkins said House Republicans did contribute substantially to the new law, which was heard in eight House committees and had 365 drafted amendments. (tcdailyplanet.net)
  • The department also noted that a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond unanimously came to the opposite conclusion last week, ruling that the Internal Revenue Service correctly interpreted the will of Congress when it issued regulations allowing health insurance tax credits for consumers in all 50 states. (foxnews.com)
  • I agree that setting up the exchanges and what is entailed has changed since the law was passed but technology does that and we don't have all member of Congress up to date in this area, just read the news and it's there everyday. (blogspot.com)
  • The recent special election in Pennsylvania put members of Congress on notice: voters will not stand for Republicans' efforts to dismantle the ACA, take away their health care or increase costs. (healthcareforamericanow.org)
  • Democratic activists are readying a deadly "Google bomb" to sully the online reputation of Republican Congressional candidates. (tgdaily.com)
  • The opportunity to place deserving Democrats, pro-union Republicans, or its own candidates on its ballot line helped WFP translate its membership base and mobilization machine into legislative leverage. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Pelosi also took aim at her Republican counterpart, House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio), saying he falsely claimed the Democrats' health care proposals would provide public funding for abortions. (rollcall.com)
  • When Healthcare.gov rolled out last fall, insurance companies complained that the information in the 834s was replete with errors, creating a crisis at the back-end of the system. (propublica.org)
  • Between April 20 and July 15, the federal government reported sending 960,000 "834" transactions to insurance companies (each report can cover more than one person in the same family). (propublica.org)
  • And re-establishing a mechanism for re-insuring the health insurance companies for high-cost patients "will help stabilize the market. (medpagetoday.com)
  • The ACA requires health insurance companies to pay for cancer screenings, wellness checks and vaccinations with no co-pay, and it allows children to stay on their parents' policies until age 26. (nbcnews.com)
  • As a representative of the House of Representatives, I want you to know that we were there that day in support of a public option which would save $120 billion, keep the insurance companies honest and increase competition," Pelosi said. (rollcall.com)
  • The Speaker noted that insurance companies "opposed the public option" because they "couldn't take the competition. (rollcall.com)
  • We allow employers to replace the current tax treatment of health insurance with the tax credit. (independent.org)
  • Those of us who have been lucky enough to receive health insurance through our employers in recent years have typically received three, maybe four, choices. (kevinmd.com)
  • Whether it's how to deliver education, how to deliver health care, how to do our environmental regulations. (politifact.com)
  • Schaufler had repeatedly sided with the GOP on key votes, including opposing banking regulations, environmental protections, and the establishment of a state health insurance exchange. (inthesetimes.com)
  • The New Deal emerged after a lengthy period of experimentation across the Atlantic with social insurance, regulations, and labor rights. (thenation.com)
  • The government contends that those words refer to any exchange, whether it is set up by the state itself or an exchange run for the state by the federal government in accordance with individual state insurance laws and regulations. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • But the bigger danger for stability is non-enforcement of the penalty for not buying health insurance if you can afford it, he continued. (medpagetoday.com)
  • While Kentucky's online marketplace for health insurance is running well, some questions remain about its long term impact. (wkms.org)
  • Kentucky's health benefit exchange is federally funded until January 2015. (wkms.org)
  • The data covers the 36 states using the federal exchange, which include Texas, Florida, Illinois, Georgia and Michigan. (propublica.org)
  • Republicans are looking for substantive, ideological changes to the exchange's governing board and conflict-of-interest rules, regulatory model and data privacy practices. (minnpost.com)
  • In the end, there's no real substantive difference between a federal exchange or a state exchange," Walker once said. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • We try to do something about obesity, but it's really difficult from a health plan, medical model," he continued. (medpagetoday.com)
  • As expected, Republican pundits have reacted angrily to the Daily Kos inspired "Google Bomb" plan, with One blogger on RedState.com describing the campaign as little more than brute character assassination. (tgdaily.com)
  • The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money. (politifact.com)
  • However, the narrative has persisted that the GOP lacks any clear health care plan. (newsbusters.org)
  • If you buy a bronze plan in the exchange, often it is a plan like that with a very high deductible that will save you from bankruptcy if you end up with $50,000 in medical bills, but it is not going to help you with your ordinary expenses. (newsbusters.org)
  • Under our proposal, no health plan will be able to dump its sick patients on another plan without paying the full cost of that transfer. (independent.org)
  • But future retirees now 54 or younger would get a payment from the government - called premium support by Republicans and a voucher by Democrats - to pick a health insurance plan through a new Medicare exchange. (pressherald.com)
  • Under this mandate, a woman paying for her own private insurance would be unable to obtain an abortion under their coverage plan, according to RH Reality Check . (huffpost.com)
  • And before this latest proposal, he had indicated that he was willing to work with Republicans on a health care plan. (npr.org)
  • These consumers will still have the option of purchasing an Aetna plan outside of the exchanges. (hbs.edu)
  • And they were engaging in filibusters which meant that 60 senators were necessary to get consideration of any judge, and the Republicans didn't have 60 senators in the end of Bush's term. (freshair.com)
  • They can create their own insurance exchanges or leave the whole job to the feds. (msnbc.com)
  • Many liberal Democrats originally wanted the feds to run a single, national exchange. (politico.com)
  • About half the states are going to let the federal government run their exchanges, less than half are going to run it themselves, and the remainder are going to partner with the feds (See the Kaiser Family Foundation for a nice summary). (kevinmd.com)
  • So what is the point here, to take away the credits for the few states that are refusing to to create exchanges or let the the feds do it for them? (blogspot.com)
  • The bill to set up a health insurance exchange in Colorado passed out of the state Senate today (Mon 4/25/11). (cpr.org)
  • Meaning that if the House passes an exchange bill that says Colorado must opt-out of the federal health law, the Democratically-controlled Senate won't go along. (cpr.org)
  • GOP Rep. Jim Abeler voted for the exchange - despite opposing the bill in its current form - in order to have a shot at becoming a conferee. (minnpost.com)
  • Initially, it was determined by Republican House leadership that the bill was not strong enough to pass a vote. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • However, after a few amendments to the bill over the course of the last month, there was enough to satisfy the Republican members of the House to ensure a vote would carry with it a passed bill. (consumerismcommentary.com)
  • But the long-term political effects of a successful Clinton health care bill will be even worse--much worse. (perrspectives.com)
  • Gov. Bill Haslam has decided not to create a state-run health insurance exchange, leaving the operation to the federal government. (wkyufm.org)
  • In a wide-ranging interview before business executives at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council, the president said he is amenable to House Republicans' taking up elements of the Senate bill, as long as the end result is the same. (nbcnews.com)
  • The House Health and Human Services Committee has sent an amended bill on to the full House which would allow not just cancer specialty hospitals (like Cancer Treatment Centers of America ) but all specialty hospitals to bypass the Certificate of Need process . (npr.org)
  • The new GOP majority in the House, meanwhile, wants to help insurance shoppers bypass MNsure altogether, while a Senate Republican bill would carve out a place on an expanded MNsure board for at least one insurance industry representative. (startribune.com)
  • Insurance agents question whether the bill would make MNsure more transparent, but said they're still reviewing it. (startribune.com)
  • WHITNEY: The big, overarching goal of a health insurance exchange is one everyone agrees on: To keep the price of health insurance from going up so much every year. (cpr.org)
  • In 2010, we chose the Republican claim that the law was a "government takeover" as our Lie of the Year . (politifact.com)
  • Acknowledging they face an uphill battle, Republicans have promised a two-year repeal campaign beginning with a symbolic House vote on Wednesday. (californiahealthline.org)
  • I didn't have health insurance for part of last year and thought I'd get stuck paying a penalty. (wskg.org)
  • 2) The Minister of health shall present to the National Assembly an annual report for the health state of the citizens and the fulfilment of the National Health Strategy within three months before the beginning of the budget year. (who.int)
  • In the Senate, long-time health care reform supporter Bob Dole adopted Kristol's mantra , declaring "Our country has health care problems, but no health care crisis. (perrspectives.com)
  • This exchange results in more cost, less choice and no privacy," Assistant House Minority Leader Kelby Woodard said on Friday, summing up GOP opposition to the exchange. (minnpost.com)