Dec 18 Public easily swayed on attitudes toward health care law, poll finds By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News Just days before the requirement for most large employers to provide health insurance takes effect, a new poll finds the public easily swayed over arguments for and against the policy. Continue reading
Dec 16 Insurers relax Obamacare deadline By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Trying to head off a new round of consumer headaches with President Barack Obama's health care law, the insurance industry said Tuesday it will give customers more time to pay their premiums for January. Continue reading
Dec 16 The top 10 political stories of 2014 By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Ferguson, elections, polarization, health care and the GOP’s lawsuit were the top five. A 9/11 report, immigration, President Obama’s unpopularity, taxes, and the debt round out the top 10 Top 10 political stories of… Continue reading
Dec 15 Small businesses drop health coverage and shift employees to Obamacare By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News For two decades Atlanta restaurant owner Jim Dunn offered a group health plan to his managers and helped pay for it. That ended Dec. 1, after the Affordable Care Act made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Continue reading
Dec 15 Healthcare.gov prepares for traffic crunch as deadlines hit today By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Wait times at the federal call center started creeping up around the middle of last week, mainly due to a surge of current customers with questions about their coverage for next year. Many will face higher premiums, although they could… Continue reading
Dec 12 Watch 7:47 Should a federal health program pay to house L.A.’s homeless? By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane Continue watching
Dec 10 Watch 6:54 Using Medicaid dollars to expand long-term care choices in Michigan By PBS News Hour Most Medicaid funds for long-term care go to nursing homes, but waiver programs give low-income seniors and younger adults with disabilities alternative options to get care in more home-like settings. The NewsHour's Cat Wise reports on a program in Michigan… Continue watching
Dec 09 Watch 6:48 News Wrap: Congress hammers out federal funding bill details By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, negotiators worked out differences on a $1.1 trillion federal spending bill that would fund the government through September 2015 and avert a shutdown. Also, Secretary of State John Kerry called on lawmakers to authorize new… Continue watching
Dec 08 Federal defense contractors find a new profitable business: Obamacare By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News In a way that is deeply changing Washington contracting, growth opportunities from the federal government have increasingly come not from war but from healing, an examination by Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post shows. Continue reading
Nov 21 Nearly a quarter of uninsured say they can’t afford coverage, poll finds By Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News Just days before the health law’s marketplaces reopened, nearly a quarter of uninsured said they expect to remain without coverage because they did not think it would be affordable, according to a poll released Friday. Continue reading