Citing rising uncertainty in insurance markets, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday it expects premiums to increase by 15 percent next year under the federal health care law’s benchmark plan.
Read moreAfter months out of the legislative spotlight, health care returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday with Republicans and Democrats unveiling competing proposals that would fundamentally alter health care in the country.
Read moreMembers of the Senate Health Committee inched toward a bipartisan compromise Tuesday for insurers whose subsidies are on shaky ground as lawmakers battle over the future of health care
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s threats to cut off insurance subsidies prompted bipartisan pushback Thursday as five governors warned Congress about the danger of continued instability.
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Upheaval in individual insurance markets requires bipartisan action in the next week, the chair of the Senate health committee said Wednesday.
Read moreA bipartisan group of eight governors on Thursday released a letter they sent to congressional leadership recommending fixes to the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreAn anti-transgender “bathroom bill” that would have required people to use public facilities that match their biological sex is dead in Texas, after the Legislature adjourned its special session a day early.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s pledge to end billions in federal insurance subsidies will worsen the federal deficit, and spike health insurance premiums, the Congressional Budget Office warned Tuesday.
Read morePeople buying individual health care policies would face higher premiums, and some may be left with no insurance options at all if President Donald Trump makes good on his threat to stop Affordable Care Act payments to insurers, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.
Read moreFor the second time in as many days, President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to chide Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the federal health care law
Read moreLashing out at the Senate majority leader via Twitter on Wednesday, President Donald Trump questioned Sen. Mitch McConnell’s inability to repeal the federal health care law.
Read moreProtections from the federal health care law’s contraceptive mandate — won by secular employers in the Hobby Lobby case — are not applicable to employees, the Third Circuit ruled.
Read moreA retired attorney in Virginia sued the Republican National Committee and several of its affiliates over the GOP’s failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act and he says he wants his donations to the party back.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday that the government will not have to repay a Maine insurer who did not receive payments from the so-called “risk corridors program” of the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreSoaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces this fall, in part because insurers are facing deep uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will continue to make key subsidy payments and enforce other parts of the existing law that help control prices.
Read moreSenate Republicans could not muster enough support for a partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act in the early morning hours Friday, with Arizona Sen. John McCain dramatically casting the decisive vote against the plan.
Read moreFour GOP senators declared Thursday evening that they will not vote for a slimmed-down partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act without an iron-clad guarantee that the House will negotiate a comprehensive replacement in conference.
Read moreThe Republican-run Senate on Wednesday afternoon rejected a GOP proposal to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act without providing a replacement.
Read moreAfter Senate Republicans narrowly voted to bring their health care bill to the floor Tuesday, President Donald Trump told supporters in Ohio that lawmakers are closer to getting rid of the “Obamacare nightmare.”
Read moreNine Republican senators joined all 48 Democrats Tuesday night in rejecting an amendment that was in fact a Republican replacement of the Affordable Care Act, dealing a blow to the party’s hopes just hours after it took up legislation to repeal the health care law.
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