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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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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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…

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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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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…

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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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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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