On children’s health coverage, congressional inaction has brought us to the ‘nightmare scenario’

LA TIMES - Micahel Hiltzik- November 27, 2017 Child healthcare advocates have been warning, and warning, and warning that Congress’ delay on reauthorizing funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program…

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I.R.S. Starts to Enforce Health Law’s Rule That Employers Offer Insurance

NY TIMES- By STACY COWLEY NOV. 16, 2017 As Republicans and the Trump administration continue trying to chip away at the Affordable Care Act, the Internal Revenue Service has begun, for…

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Insurers make billions off Medicaid in California during Obamacare expansion

Los Angeles Times - Chad Terhune and Anna Gorman- NOVEMBER 6, 2017 Medicaid is rarely associated with getting rich. The patients are poor, the budgets tight and payments to doctors…

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Wall Street Sees a CVS, Aetna Deal as a Revolutionary Defense

Bloomberg - By Cristin Flanagan October 27, 2017, 7:56 AM PDT Speculation that CVS Health Corp may be making a play to buy Aetna Inc yesterday followed hot on the heels of…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Why Obamacare Is Still in Peril

NY Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JULY 28, 2017 In a dramatic last-minute spectacle, the latest Republican plan to destroy the Affordable Care Act was defeated early Friday because of…

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Even Talking About Weakening Obamacare Provisions Weakens The Exchanges

NPR- July 21, 201710:56 AM ET DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN The Affordable Care Act is not "exploding" or "imploding," as President Trump likes to claim. But Trump does hold several keys to sabotaging the…

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Major insurance groups call part of health bill ‘unworkable’

By ALAN FRAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Jul 15, 2017, 11:21 AM ET Two of the insurance industry's most powerful organizations say a crucial provision in the Senate Republican health…

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