Jun 08 If the individual health insurance market withers, who would revive it? By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News In his high-stakes strategy to overhaul the federal health law, President Donald Trump is threatening to upend the individual health insurance market with several key policies. But if the market actually breaks, could anyone put it back together again?… Continue reading
May 31 House GOP health care bill does not deliver on Trump’s promises, poll says By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Three in four Americans say they don't think the narrowly-passed bill fulfills most of Trump's promises, according to a poll from Kaiser Family Foundation… Continue reading
May 24 CBO verdict: 51 million uninsured by 2026 under House health care bill By Laura Santhanam As many as 51 million people would lose health insurance coverage by 2026 if the latest Republican effort to overhaul Obamacare becomes law, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest analysis released Wednesday. Continue reading
May 17 How Maine got high-risk pools to work By Patty Wight, Maine Public One option touted by House Republicans borrows an idea that Maine used just before the Affordable Care Act went into effect. It’s called an “invisible high-risk pool” — invisible because people in it didn’t even know they were. Continue reading
May 10 Column: What Medicare can teach the GOP about this basic rule of insurance By Philip Moeller The very nature of insurance itself seems to have escaped many critics of Obamacare. Continue reading
May 08 Why blue states might ditch beloved Obamacare protections By Chad Terhune, Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News Few, if any, states would be able to fund federal health care subsidies on their own under the American Health Care Act. Continue reading
May 04 Watch How health care cost and coverage might change for everyone under GOP bill By PBS News Hour House Republicans have pushed through a bill to remake the American health care system in dramatic ways. Lisa Desjardins and Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how coverage and cost would change, and how the… Continue watching
May 04 Analysis: 5 issues that could derail the GOP health care bill in the Senate By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News After weeks of will-they-or-won’t-they tensions, the House passed its GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act on Thursday by a razor-thin margin. It now heads to the Senate, where it will face more internal strife and five big hurdles that… Continue reading
May 04 WATCH: President Trump celebrates after GOP health care vote win By Associated Press President Donald Trump is celebrating the passage of the House Republican health care bill, saying he is confident it will get through the Senate. Continue reading
May 04 House Republicans pass bill to repeal Obamacare By Alan Fram and Erica Werner, Associated Press Relieved Republicans muscled their health care bill through the House Thursday, taking their biggest step toward dismantling the Obama health care overhaul since Donald Trump took office. Continue reading