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Former Obama administration officials launch health insurance enrollment campaign

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017 Julie Campbell

The ex-officials have taken on a private campaign to encourage Americans to sign up for coverage. Former Obama administration officials are working together once again to support health insurance enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. The open enrollment period starts on November 1 but the Trump administration has slashed the advertising budget. With less money to spend on advertising regarding health insurance enrollment, former Obama administration officials are concerned that fewer Americans will be reached. The marketing campaigns are often the first step Americans have toward informing themselves regarding their…

Trump won’t admit defeat after yet another failed Senate GOP health care vote

September 28, 2017September 27, 2017 G. Turner

Despite the fact that the president has been repeatedly unsuccessful repealing the ACA, he won’t give up. Senate Republicans kicked the latest health care vote to the curb, giving up on their most recent effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That said, President Donald Trump is determined to keep trying to get rid of Obamacare in its current form. Opposition within the Republican party itself led to the termination of the Graham-Cassidy bill. Senate Republicans gave up on the health care vote meant to repeal the Affordable Care Act.…

Graham-Cassidy health care bill may doom future GOP attempts to kill ACA

September 25, 2017September 23, 2017 Julie Campbell

John McCain vs Graham-Cassidy health care bill

Insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, patient groups and even John McCain have vehemently opposed the bill. The Graham-Cassidy health care bill is facing widespread opposition from many directions, including from a key member of the Republican party. Should this most recent effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fail, it may prove to be the end of the effort. Hospitals, doctors, health insurance companies and other groups rallied together to oppose the bill. This represents an alliance of groups that are very rarely all on the same side. However, the…

Iowa’s stopgap health insurance plan is illegal, say critics

September 21, 2017September 20, 2017 Logan B.

Opponents to the state commissioner’s plan say it would excessively burden moderate income Iowans. Iowa has been considering a stopgap health insurance proposal to help the state to prop up its shaky coverage market. However, critics are saying that this strategy would violate federal law. The reason is that they claim it would force moderate income Iowans to have to spend far more for coverage. In fact, opponents say those state residents could be forced to pay thousands more every year if the stopgap health insurance strategy was to move…

Congressional Budget Office accuses Trump administration policies of hurting ACA

September 20, 2017September 18, 2017 H. Cutner

health care congressional budget office report

A new report from the CBO predicts that uninsured American numbers will rise under President Trump. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report predicting that Trump’s health care policies will be to the detriment of the Affordable Care Act’s success. Despite the GOP’s efforts to overturn the ACA, the Trump Administration’s policies will foster rising premiums and falling enrollment in individual health insurance markets in 2018. The report suggested that the President Donald Trump’s strategy is causing direct harm to health care. Trump had said that his strategy…

Medicare expansion through single payer health care gets support of 15 senators

September 14, 2017September 13, 2017 Marc

bernie sanders health insurance medicare expansion

While Democrats lean toward Sanders’s single payer system, Republicans oppose the measure. Fifteen Democratic senators have shown their interest in a single payer health-care system through widespread Medicare expansion. This represents a considerable shift among Democrats, who have previously seen this type of strategy as politically perilous. Until now, most lawmakers have avoided this type of concept like the plague, but this seems to have changed. Senate Democrats have co-sponsored a measure Senator Bernie Sanders (VT – Independent) proposed yesterday. It was created for broad Medicare expansion in order to…

Health insurance exchanges have at least one offering in every U.S. county

August 29, 2017August 26, 2017 Marc

The Affordable Care Act was previously threatened by possible bare patches in plan availability. Earlier in 2017, it appeared as though the health insurance exchanges in several states would suffer bare counties in the 2018 open enrollment period. That said, the situation has turned around and every county continues to have a minimum of one option available. Though President Trump had claimed that the insurance marketplaces were failing, they appear to be healing. President Trump had been pointing to the problem of counties without plans available through the health insurance…