Affordable Care Act Tax Penalty Faces Supreme Court Scrutiny
Focused on the individual mandate tax penalty that Congress zeroed out two years ago, the Supreme Court took up a new challenge Monday to the federal health care law.
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Sanders Tackles Disability Rights in New Policy Unveiling
Senator Bernie Sanders released a plan Friday morning for Americans with disabilities, vowing to ensure they have access to jobs, education and public services.
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Health Care in America: For One Family, a $300,000 Debt Nightmare
The Maccoux family receive visitors to their beautiful home in a Minneapolis suburb with an infectious warmth that belies the fact their youngest daughter Olivia has had more than 140 brain surgeries, all by the age of 24.
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US Budget Deficit to Surpass $1 Trillion
An annual congressional report says the U.S. budget deficit is likely to exceed $1 trillion this year despite a healthy economy.
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High Court Refuses to Fast-Track Obamacare Appeal
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by the House of Representatives and a coalition of mostly Democrat-led states to fast-track review of Texas’ lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreRepublicans Relentless in Attacking Obamacare Mandate
The repeal of an unpopular fine for people without health insurance has had little impact on Obamacare sign-ups or premiums, a gap between the real world and legal arguments from conservatives still challenging the Affordable Care Act.
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Blue States Ask High Court to Decide Fate of Obamacare
The House of Representatives plus a group of 20 mostly Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia asked the Supreme Court on Friday to hear a case over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, following a Fifth Circuit ruling that struck down the law’s individual mandate.
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Three Years in, Still No Plan to Replace Obamacare
As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody.”
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Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Obamacare Individual Mandate
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday sided with Republican opponents of the Affordable Care Act, finding that the individual mandate tax penalty zeroed out by Congress two years ago is unconstitutional, but it declined to invalidate the entire law.
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Insurers Clamor for $12B in High Court Obamacare Fight
A lawyer for insurers that paid into the so-called risk corridor of the federal health care law told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government had engaged in a bait and switch with $12 billion on the line.
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10 Years Later, Americans Still Split on Obamacare
Nearly 10 years after its passage, the landmark health care legislation commonly called Obamacare continues to divide Americans according to a new poll.
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Imminent Fifth Circuit Ruling Could Gut Affordable Care Act
With the fate of millions of Americans’ health insurance hanging in the balance, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is due to rule in a bellwether case that could gut the Affordable Care Act after Congress removed the individual mandate tax penalty two years ago.
Read moreFirst National-Scale ACA Fraud Case Makes Waves in Connecticut
Federal prosecutors on Friday touted the indictment of a California man as the “first of its kind” involving large-scale fraudulent enrollments of people in plans under the federal health care law.
Read moreStudy: Obamacare Repeal Would Widen Economic Divide
With the legal battle over the Affordable Care Act now before a federal appeals court, a new study says repealing the law would deepen the divide between the have and have-nots: Wealthy Americans would receive billions in tax cuts, while poor people would lose their health insurance subsidies.
Read moreStable Costs but More Uninsured as Obamacare Sign-Ups Open
More Americans are going without health insurance, and stable premiums plus greater choice next year under the Obama health care law aren’t likely to reverse that.
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Democrats Fall Short in Bid to Undo Obamacare Waivers
Senate Democrats on Wednesday forced a vote on health care as the presidential election cycle heats up, but failed to pass a resolution to roll back a Trump administration rule making it easier for states to waive certain requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreMore Choices, Stable Premiums for Obamacare Next Year
Consumers will have more health insurance choices next year under former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and premiums will dip slightly for many, the Trump administration said Tuesday.
Read moreMedicaid Expansion
Two Nebraskans sued the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for delaying until October 2020 a voter-mandated expansion of Medicaid that they say will deprive them of healthcare for a year and cost the state more than $150 million in federal funding.
Read moreColorado Reinsurance Will Lower Rates of Private Health Care Plans
Health care costs for Coloradans buying health insurance through the state’s marketplace are about to drop, thanks to a reinsurance program which received federal approval Wednesday.
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