Tag: Affordable Care Act

Former HHS Secretaries join forces to encourage health insurance market stability

Logan B.
health insurance market stability

The countries past health chiefs recently spoke with a message to President Trump and GOP Congress members. Former U.S. health secretaries recently spoke with a message to President Donald Trump and GOP Congress members, saying that when it comes to the health insurance market stability, don’t make things worse. Their goal was to try to convince the lawmakers not to unbalance the stability even further. As it appears as though the Affordable Care Act is here to stay for at least the foreseeable future, the former health chiefs are encouraging…

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Health insurance premiums and deficit climb with Trump’s mountain of threats

Nordstrom
donald trump health insurance executive order

The Congressional Budget Office released a statement outlining the financial impact if the president goes ahead with his plans. Health insurance premiums for the most popular plans are going to spike by 20 percent in 2018 if President Trump moves forward with his current threats to the Affordable Care Act. This data was released by the Congressional Budget Office. It also said Trump’s plans would harm the federal budget deficits by increasing them by $194 billion. The federal deficit would suffer by nearly 200 billion over the next ten years…

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Virginia health insurance to lose Anthem next year

G. Turner
portsmouth virginia health insurance commissioner

The insurer announced it will officially leave the state’s exchange for the 2018 marketplace. Anthem recently announced its intentions to step out of the Virginia health insurance marketplace for 2018. Moreover, it has also revealed that it will be reducing the number of health plans it sells in Bristol, as well as Washington and Scott counties. The withdrawal from the insurance exchange occurred after Republicans failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This news was also made on the heels of President Trump’s threat to slash healthcare subsidy payments which…

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Health insurance penalty for failing to purchase coverage will remain

G. Turner
Health care vote insurance Donald Trump

Those opposed to the Affordable Care Act once again failed to pass the whittled-down version of the GOP legislation. The latest attempt by opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to remove the health insurance penalty for not being adequately covered have failed yet again in passing legislation to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law. On Friday, the Senate defeated the most recent version of the health care law’s repeal legislation. Among the main reasons cited by GOP lawmakers for trying to overturn the ACA is the penalty for…

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GOP health care repeal fails again, frustrating Republicans

H. Cutner
Donald Trump - health care repeal

Party members have been expressing their disappointment, embarrassment and irritation with their leaders. Following the latest health care repeal failure, Republicans are expressing their frustration, embarrassment and even fear to their party leaders. Many have now stated that they feel the promise their party has been making for years – to remove significant portions of the Affordable Care Act – is as close to death as it has ever been. President trump has blamed the Democrats and “a few Republicans” for defeating this central component of his agenda. The Affordable…

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Health insurance coverage among U.S. adults drops by 2 million

Logan B.
affordable care act health insurance coverage

Some have interpreted these numbers as a reduction in the Affordable Care Act’s gains. New Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index figures suggest health insurance coverage rates may have fallen this year. After years of improvements in the uninsured Americans statistics following the Affordable Care Act, those figures have started to erode. The index stated that the number of uninsured Americans grew by 2 million people in 2017. The Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index was based on a survey of American adults. The survey showed an 11.7 percent uninsured rate throughout the second quarter of…

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GOP healthcare bill could be deadly for thousands of Americans, study

Marc
hospital GOP healthcare bill

A new report suggests that lawmakers are debating a bill that could take away insurance needed to save lives. If the GOP healthcare bill goes ahead in its current form, the number of premature deaths among Americans will increase by 29,000 per year, says a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine medical journal. This report is based on calculations conducted on the Republican health care legislation if it goes forward as-is. Congressional lawmakers are debating two different plans for an Affordable Care Act repeal. That said, the Annals of…

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