Aug 26 An Obamacare win: No ‘bare counties’ for health insurance next year By Casey Ross, STAT An insurer has stepped up to sell individual health insurance policies to the last county in the U.S. without Obamacare coverage in 2018. Continue reading
Aug 17 Column: The health insurance tax exemption makes care more affordable, not less By Joseph White Public policy professor Joe White replies to Yevgeniy Feyman and Charles Blahous’s argument that the health insurance tax exemption induces people to buy too much health care. Continue reading
Aug 16 Column: A tax reform President Trump should like, and you should too By Yevgeniy Feyman, Charles Blahous If both sides of the aisle are serious about improving our health care system, fixing this subsidy must become a priority. Continue reading
Aug 10 Trump administration’s actions raise health insurance premiums, study says By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Researchers from the Kaiser foundation looked at proposed premiums for a benchmark silver plan across major metropolitan areas in 20 states and Washington, D.C. Overall, they found that 15 of those cities will see increases of 10 percent or more… Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch Few options remain for some consumers in ACA marketplaces By PBS News Hour Senate Republicans failed this week to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which has provided insurance to 12 million people. Most people enrolled under the ACA have at least two insurers to choose from, but next year, 3 million people may… Continue watching
Jul 29 Even without Congress, Trump can still cut Medicaid enrollment By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News The Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid. Continue reading
Jul 21 Column: ‘The Medicare Maven’ on Ivy’s health insurance horror story By Philip Moeller The U.S. provides the world’s most expensive health care. And what do we get for all this money? Health outcomes that place America and its residents solidly in the ranks of developing nations. Continue reading
Jul 20 Column: ‘Maddeningly complex’ health care costs force patients to become detectives By Elisabeth Rosenthal We are constantly told we should be better consumers of health care, that we should shop for insurance and high-value care. Well, how can we be expected to do that if the prices are unknowable and we get contradictory answers… Continue reading
Jul 15 Major insurance groups call part of health bill ‘unworkable’ By Alan Fram, Associated Press Two of the insurance industry's most powerful organizations say a crucial provision in the Senate Republican health care bill allowing the sale of bare-bones policies is "unworkable in any form."… Continue reading
Jul 10 Survey: U.S. uninsured up by 2 million this year as gains erode By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. adults without health insurance has grown by some 2 million this year, according to a major new survey that finds recent coverage gains beginning to erode. Continue reading