Nov 01 Watch 5:08 What you need to know about Obamacare signups under the Trump administration By PBS News Hour It's opening day of open enrollment for the Obamacare insurance marketplaces, and under President Trump, there are significant changes in store for people shopping for health care coverage. Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News joins Lisa Desjardins to go… Continue watching
Oct 20 Uninsured Americans rises to over 12 percent amid health care fight By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The number of U.S. adults without health insurance is up nearly 3.5 million this year, as rising premiums and political turmoil over "Obamacare" undermine coverage gains that drove the nation's uninsured rate to a historic low. 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 17 Watch Senators take a bipartisan step toward a health care fix By PBS News Hour Two leading senators reached a bipartisan deal Tuesday to stabilize health insurance markets under Obamacare. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said their two-year compromise would fund federal subsidies that President Trump ended last week. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Oct 13 Analysis: What you need to know about Trump’s changes to the health law By Julie Appleby, Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News, Julie Rovner, KFF Health News Apparently frustrated by Congress’ inability to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump this week decided to take matters into his own hands. Late Thursday evening, the White House announced it would cease key payments to insurers. Continue reading
Oct 13 Watch Trump is ending the Obamacare subsidy payments to health insurers. Here’s who ends up paying By PBS News Hour 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 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 09 White House plans executive order to expand health care options By Ken Thomas and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch 2:07 Keeping a promise to conservatives, Trump administration guts Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate By PBS News Hour New rules from the Trump administration on contraception coverage could affect hundreds of thousands for whom the cost of birth control would go from free to full retail cost, potentially putting it out of reach for many low-income women. The… Continue watching
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