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
May 04 What’s in the House GOP health care bill? By Daniel Bush After weeks of negotiations, House Republican leaders secured enough support to hold a vote on the GOP's health care bill. Here is a look at what's inside the legislation. Continue reading
May 04 Watch Live: Congress votes on health care bill By Alan Fram and Erica Werner, Associated Press House approval would edge Republicans closer to repealing much of President Barack Obama's health care law, which would represent at least partial redemption of campaign pledges by GOP candidates — including Trump — since its enactment in 2010. Continue reading
May 03 Watch 10:53 Lawmakers debate whether GOP health bill solves its pre-existing condition problem By PBS News Hour The revised Republican plan to replace Obamacare gained key endorsements from two moderate Republican holdouts, who were convinced that a new amendment would help cover people with pre-existing conditions. Will the plan garner enough support? Judy Woodruff gets reaction from… Continue watching