Oct 25 ACA ‘silver plan’ premiums up an average of 34 percent, new analysis finds By Associated Press An analysis of newly released government data finds that premiums for the most popular health plans under the Affordable Care Act are going up by an average 34 percent next year. Continue reading
Oct 25 Online ‘window shopping’ for 2018 health law plans underway By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Consumers can start previewing plans and premiums online Wednesday for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in 2018. Continue reading
Oct 19 Could Trump inadvertently breathe life into Obamacare? By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press President Donald Trump's attempt to shut off the subsidy for health insurance copays and deductibles would cause a different subsidy to jump up, the one for premiums. Continue reading
Oct 13 Watch Trump is ending the Obamacare subsidy payments to health insurers. Here’s who ends up paying By PBS NewsHour President Trump continued to chip away at the Affordable Care Act by ending subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay deductibles, co-payments and out-of-pocket charges for lower-income Americans. Judy Woodruff speaks with Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News to… Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch 12:00 Shields and Brooks on Trump dismantling Obama’s achievements, Puerto Rico in need By PBS NewsHour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including President Trump’s efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act and his refusal to certify the Iran nuclear agreement, the federal… Continue watching
Oct 12 Trump plans to ‘immediately’ stop ACA payments to insurers By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press In a move likely to roil America's insurance markets, President Donald Trump will "immediately" halt payments to insurers under the Obama-era health care law he has been trying to persuade Congress to unravel for months. Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch 9:13 How Trump’s executive order affects health care plans By Travis Daub Congress may have failed to repeal and replace Obamacare, but an executive order signed by President Trump on Thursday could trigger big changes in the health care law. William Brangham talks to Avik Roy of the Foundation for Research on… Continue watching
Oct 12 WATCH: Trump signs executive order to boost lower-premium health plans By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Frustrated by health care failures in Congress, President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to rewrite some federal insurance rules as a beginning of renewed efforts to undermine "Obamacare," the program he's promised to kill. Continue reading
Oct 07 Trump reaches out to Democrats in bid for ‘great’ health law By Ken Thomas, Associated Press The president has suggested that he'd be open to negotiating with Democrats on health care. Continue reading
Oct 06 Trump weakens Obamacare’s birth control mandate By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Trump administration is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons. Continue reading