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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Tax bill will not seek repeal of individual health insurance mandate

The Hill- BY PETER SULLIVAN - 11/02/17 09:51 AM EDT The tax reform bill to be released Thursday will not include a repeal of ObamaCare's individual mandate, sources say, despite President…

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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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I.R.S. Says It Will Reject Tax Returns that Lack Health Insurance Disclosure

NY Times- Health - By REED ABELSON-OCT. 20, 2017 Despite President Trump’s pronouncements, not only is Obamacare not dead, there are signs that his administration is keeping it alive. In the…

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CMS Reveals New Medicare Card Design

CMS.GOV-  SEPTEMBER 14, 2017  Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) gave the public its first look at the newly designed Medicare card. The new Medicare card contains…

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AnMed Health to pay $7 million to settle False Claims Act allegations

WSPA Channel 7 News Columbia SC- Published: September 27, 2017, 10:58 am Updated: September 27, 2017, 12:37 pm COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) – AnMed Health has agreed to pay over $7 million…

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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…

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Will Congress Continue Health Care For 9 Million Children?

NPR- September 6, 20175:38 PM ET- PHIL GALEWITZ A popular federal-state program that provides health coverage to millions of children in lower- and middle-class families is up for renewal Sept. 30. But…

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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…

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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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