Trump Administration Slashes ‘Obamacare’ Sign-Up Assistance
WASHINGTON (CN) – The federal agency tasked with supporting nonprofit programs that help enroll people in the Affordable Health Care
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Trump Touts Expansion of ‘Skinny’ Business Insurance Plans
In a move expected to raise premiums under the federal health care law, President Trump cleared the way Tuesday for small businesses to form “skinny” health insurance plans.
Read moreDoctors and Hospitals Line Up Against Texas Effort to Kill Obamacare
Leading health care and physicians groups and five law professors joined 16 Democratic states Thursday in asking a federal court to throw out Texas’ attempt to kill Obamacare for alleged unconstitutionality after Congress removed the individual mandate tax penalty last year.
Read moreFeds Won’t Defend Obamacare in Texas’ Bid to Kill It
The Trump administration said late Thursday that it will not defend Obamacare in Texas’ federal lawsuit claiming Congress’ removal of the individual mandate tax penalty beginning next year will render the entire law unconstitutional.
Read moreSenate Confirms Trump Nominee to US Appeals Court in Tight Vote
The Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Fifth Circuit, despite objections from liberals about his past work advocating in court against the federal health care law’s birth control mandate and other controversial social issues.
Read moreTrump and Nuns to Clash With State in Contraception Fight
The Third Circuit allowed an order of nuns to intervene on Tuesday in a lawsuit pitting Pennsylvania against the Trump administration’s rollback of the contraception mandate under the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreDemocratic States Fight Texas’ Attempt to Kill Obamacare
Sixteen Democratic attorneys general intervened Monday in Texas’ lawsuit to kill Obamacare, disagreeing that the Republican-controlled Congress’ gutting of the individual mandate tax penalty last year leaves the law unconstitutional.
Read moreStates Defend Obamacare’s Consumer Protections From Trump
Part of his long line of actions to defend the Affordable Care Act, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman led 12 other states on Wednesday in opposing a new rule that would gut the law’s consumer protections.
Read moreSmall Insurer Claims Partial Victory in Obamacare Funding Tussle
A New Mexico-based health care provider won a partial but significant legal victory against the federal government Thursday, after a federal judge ruled the Department of Health and Human Services used flawed formulas to shift money from big insurers to small ones.
Read moreTwenty States Try to Kill Obamacare for Good
A 20-state coalition sued the federal government late Monday, saying the end of the Obamacare individual mandate in the December tax cut renders the law unconstitutional. The lawsuit puts the Trump administration in the uncomfortable position of defending a law that it spent all of 2017 unsuccessfully trying to repeal in Congress.
Read moreHealth Care Cuts of $1 Billion Push States to Court
Fighting federal cuts to health care subsidies that help nearly 1 million poor New Yorkers and Minnesotans, the states served Trump’s Health Department with a more than $1 billion federal complaint Friday.
Read moreCongressional Scorekeeper Takes Aim at Budget Band-Aids
A cynical shred of common ground emerged at an oversight hearing of the Congressional Budget Office as both parties agreed Wednesday that the Senate’s budget process is broken.
Read moreIdaho to Insurers: Give Us Plans That Don’t Follow Obamacare
Concerned about soaring health care costs, Idaho on Wednesday revealed a plan that will allow insurance companies to sell cheap policies that ditch key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreJudge Blocks Trump’s Rollback of Contraceptive Mandate
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily halted new rules by the Trump administration to let employers or insurers opt out of contraception coverage in their health care plans on religious and moral grounds.
Read moreAP-NORC Poll Finds Health Care Is The issue That Won’t Go Away
As President Donald Trump completes his first year in office, Americans are increasingly concerned about health care, and their faith that government can fix it has fallen.
Read moreCongress Deals Pair of Blows to ‘Obamacare’
Two Republican senators abandoned their fight Wednesday for legislation this year to help contain premium costs by resuming federal subsidies to insurers, as Congress dealt a pair of blows to President Barack Obama’s health care law.
Read moreJudge Temporarily Blocks New Trump Rules on Birth Control
A federal judge in Philadelphia on Friday ordered the Trump administration not to enforce new rules that could significantly reduce women’s access to free birth control.
Read morePennsylvania Claims Trump Overstepped on Birth Control Exemption
Attorneys for Pennsylvania told a federal judge Thursday that if she fails to overturn a Trump administration rule easing birth control coverage mandates in the federal health care law, more than 2.5 million women in the Commonwealth will pay more for birth control and other forms of contraception.
Read moreFederal Judge Likely to Bar Administration’s Contraception Rules
A federal judge signaled Tuesday he would block new rules by the Trump administration that allow any employer or insurer to opt out of including contraception coverage in their health care plans on religious and moral grounds.
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