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Published time: 13 Oct, 2017 03:20 Cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act will no longer continue, the Trump administration has announced. The White House cited federal court decisions finding no appropriation was ever lawfully enacted. “Based on guidance from the Department of Justice,” a White House statement released Thursday night […]
Moments after the gavel struck to open the Senate’s only hearing on the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill, dozens of activists, many in wheelchairs, broke out into chants and caused the session to go into recess. “I would like to welcome everyone, and I do mean everyone,” said Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), as a protester suddenly […]
On Wednesday, in a discussion of the latest Republican health care bill, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told the truth. “You know, I could maybe give you 10 reasons why this bill shouldn’t be considered,” he said on a conference call with reporters. “But Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to […]
Jimmy Kimmel’s health care battle continued on Thursday night — but rather than focus on the latest ramblings of Fox & Friends co-anchor Brian Kilmeade, the late-night comedian turned his attention to President Donald Trump. VIDEOS
ABC via Variety Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is mixing more and more serious stuff in with his comedy. Kimmel took to the stage of his ABC late-night program and, for the second time in five months, urged viewers to push back against Republican lawmakers seeking to repeal the Affordable Care Act. And, in a rare instance of a […]
Sean Gallup/Getty Images Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada on Tuesday announced that Centene, a low-cost health insurer, would enter the private health-insurance markets in 14 rural Nevada counties that previously had no insurer for 2018. “Today we are going to announce that there will be no counties without health insurance options in the great state […]
Mark Wilson/ Getty Images The Congressional Budget Office released its report on the impact of President Donald Trump ending Obamacare’s cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments on Tuesday. CSR payments help to offset the cost to insurers that offer plans with low out-of-pocket costs to poorer Americans. The payments became the subject of a lawsuit between the Obama administration and the Republican-controlled […]
Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed Democratic state attorneys general to defend subsidy payments to insurance companies under the Obamacare healthcare law, a critical part of funding for the statute that President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia […]
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite When Republican Sen. Susan Collins landed in Bangor, Maine on Friday, a crowd at the airport greeted her with applause. She was arriving home after a dramatic week in the US Senate, during which she defied her party leadership and voted “no” on all three Republican efforts to repeal and replace […]
Published time: 28 Jul, 2017 05:37 Edited time: 28 Jul, 2017 05:57 The US Senate has not supported a “skinny” repeal of the previous administration’s healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), widely known as Obamacare. The repeal failed by a narrow margin of 59-49. At least three Republicans voted “no,” including John McCain, Susan […]
