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 morePart 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 moreA 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 moreA 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 moreFighting 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 moreA 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 moreConcerned 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 moreA 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 moreAs 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 moreTwo 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 moreA 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 moreAttorneys 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 moreA 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.
Read moreJoined by Sen. Bernie Sanders to unveil his plan for universal health care, the Democratic candidate for Maryland governor said his state is better positioned than any other to adopt a single-payer system.
Read moreAfter prevailing at the Supreme Court against the federal health care law’s contraception mandate, the Little Sisters of the Poor announced plans Tuesday to fight a new leg of the battle.
Read moreHaving generated several hundred amendments already, the latest version of the tax bill was not ready in time for Tuesday morning’s meeting of a Senate committee that will finalize it.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday all but declined to grant a nationwide preliminary injunction to force the Trump administration to keep paying Obama-era subsidies that reduce health care costs for lower-income Americans, saying states could not show immediate harm.
Read moreEighteen states on Wednesday asked a federal judge for a nationwide emergency restraining order to stop President Trump from ending Affordable Care Act subsidies that reduce healthcare costs for lower-income Americans. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria will hear arguments Monday on the request for a restraining order.
Read moreKey senators reached a breakthrough deal Tuesday on resuming federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has blocked. Insurers had warned that unless the money is quickly restored, premiums will go up.
Read moreEighteen states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Friday over the president’s decision to scrap subsidies to health insurance companies that help cover the out-of-pocket medical costs of low-income Americans.
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