UnitedHealth’s Splish Beats CVS-Aetna’s Splash
Bloomberg Gadfly - By Brooke Sutherland Max Nisen - Dec 6, 2017 11:52 AM EST UnitedHealth Group Inc. is that kid in school who's always doing better than you.The $214 billion company…
Amazon’s cloud is about to announce a huge health-care deal with Cerner
CNBC- Christina Farr | Jordan Novet Published 11:21 AM ET Wed, 22 Nov 2017 Updated 1:22 PM ET Wed, 22 Nov 2017 Amazon's cloud unit to partner with Cerner: Sources Amazon's…
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…
Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare Again
The New York Times- By ROBERT PEAR, MAGGIE HABERMAN and REED ABELSON -OCT. 12, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump will scrap subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay out-of-pocket costs…
If Republicans Revive Health Care Again, This Is What It Could Mean For Your State
NPR- September 22, 20173:19 PM ET -Danielle Kurtzleben John McCain on Friday imperiled Republicans' latest Affordable Care Act repeal and replace effort when he said he "cannot in good conscience" support…
Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes
NY Times - By ROBERT PEAR- SEPT. 13, 2017 WASHINGTON — In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday to embrace what was…
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…
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…
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…