States hurry to fix health-insurance markets
The Economist- Aug 31st 2017 | WASHINGTON, DC Though insurers remain, Obamacare is teetering in places NOT long ago, America’s health-insurance markets seemed to be drying up. In June 49 counties…
Did Medicaid Expansion Cause The Opioid Epidemic? There’s Little Evidence That It Did.
Health Affairs Blog- Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Emma Sandoe -August 23, 2017 Recent health reform debates have generated a new theory that claims that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion has…
Trump to make August cost-sharing payments to health insurers.
REUTERS- Yasmeen Abutaleb #POLITICS AUGUST 16, 2017 / 12:53 PM / WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will make cost-sharing payments to insurance companies under Obamacare for August, a White House spokesman…
Soaring Health Insurance Profits Add Intrigue To Obamacare Debate
Hartford Courant - Dan Haar- August 10,2017 It was a tense winter for Aetna, Cigna and the other giant national managed health care companies. Their mega-mergers collapsed in lawsuits by…
Covered California premiums will rise 12.5%, and Anthem Blue Cross cuts coverage
Los Angeles Times- Soumya Karlamangla Contact Reporter -August 1, 2017 @ 4:15pm Amid uncertainty over the future of the Affordable Care Act, California officials announced Tuesday that monthly premiums for health…
