Tag Archives: Obamacare

January 2018 Yahoonews; Andrew Luccock pays about $1,700 per month for health insurance for his family of 5—and still expects to pay more than $25,000 out-of-pocket this year for medical care. That will total around $45,000 for premiums and uncovered expenses in 2018–on top of a similar outlay last year. “I’m …

December 2017 Yahoonews; Despite repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate this week, health insurance startup Oscar Health expects to gain to pull in nearly $1 billion in revenue and enroll a quarter of a million members in 2018. That’s quite a feat for the insurance company meant for …

December 2017 Yahoonews;In a remarkably strong show of consumer demand, nearly 9 million people signed up for “Obamacare” next year, as government numbers out Thursday proved predictions of its collapse wrong yet again. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said more than 8.8 million people have signed up in …

March 2017 vox; Paul Krugman has a column Monday offering Republicans some advice for how to improve Obamacare. This paragraph is worth calling out: One important answer would be to spend a bit more money. Obamacare has turned out to be remarkably cheap; the Congressional Budget Office now projects its …

January 2016 TheWashingtonPost; Congressional Republicans on Wednesday launched their long-promised effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, even as they acknowledged that they may need several months to develop a replacement along conservative lines. Signifying how enormous a priority the issue is for the incoming administration, Vice President-elect Mike Pence …

December 2016 nytimes; House Republicans, responding to criticism that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, said on Thursday that their goal in replacing President Obama’s health law was to guarantee “universal access” to health care and coverage, not necessarily to ensure that everyone actually has …

December 2016 forbes; Now that Congressman Tom Price has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump as his candidate for Secretary of Health and Human Services, it’s time to attend to his plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. There are a lot of misconceptions about his replacement plan. …

November 2016 VoxNews; The Republican Party, for the first time ever, has a very real shot at repealing Obamacare — and leaving tens of millions of Americans without health insurance coverage. Donald Trump has won the White House. Republicans retained control of the Senate, and they’re expected to keep the …

October 2016 ABCNews; The Obama administration acknowledged on Monday that premiums for health care plans created under the president’s signature Affordable Care Act will rise substantially next year — another hiccup for the law, also known as “Obamacare.” Insurers are set to raise the premiums for plans sold through HealthCare.gov …

August 2016 YahooNews; Despite its seemingly endless political and financial travails, Obamacare has taken a big bite out of the number of uninsured Americans since it was enacted in 2010. An estimated 20 million more people are now covered by private health insurance obtained through subsidized government exchanges or expanded …