Obamacare
California
Could California Become The Next Canada for Health Care?
State Sen. Ricardo Lara didn’t move to Canada following Donald Trump’s win last November, but he visited last week. While touring a major research hospital in Toronto, he said he realized that American views on providing health care are becoming more Canadian. “One fundamental difference between the United States and ...
Commentary
Withholding CSR Funds Could Push More Health Plans Out
If President Trump follows through with his suggestion that he might withhold subsidy payments to insurers as a way to force Democrats to the negotiating table, the move might have little effect on his political opponents but push struggling health plans out of the ACA marketplace. The president indicated in ...
Commentary
HHS Can Target Obamacare’s Medical Loss Ratio Rule Right Away
The legislative effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is on hold until Congress returns from recess. In the meantime, the executive branch can do its part to dismantle the health law’s most destructive components. The Trump administration can start by modifying Obamacare’s “medical loss ratio” rules, which dictate how insurers ...
Commentary
Republicans Are The Real Defenders Of Medicaid Patients
Is Obamacare’s survival as of now a victory for the nation’s poor? That’s what the law’s supporters would have people believe. Democrats — and more than a few Republicans — maintain that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to withdraw the American Health Care Act on March 24 has saved millions ...
Commentary
By Upholding The Constitution, Trump Can Breathe New Life Into “Repeal and Replace”
Republicans are still smarting from the failure of the American Health Care Act just 10 days ago. Speaker Ryan acknowledged reality when he said in the aftermath of the bills collapse, “Obamacare is the law of the land . . . for the foreseeable future.” “Foreseeable future” need not mean ...
California
San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California
SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
California
Single Payer Is Fool’s Gold For California
While the latest Republican attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare may have failed, Democrats in California and in D.C. are just getting started in their effort to eliminate the health law. Unfortunately, they’re angling to replace ObamaCare with something even worse. In California, State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins ...
Commentary
How Trump Can Keep The Drive To Repeal Obamacare Alive Through Executive Action
There’s no doubt about it — last week’s failure to pass the American Health Care Act was a painful setback in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare. But Obamacare’s critics need not give up. There are plenty of executive actions the Trump administration could take to roll back the ...
Commentary
ObamaCare’s Unhappy 7th Birthday
As the GOP’s fractious debate over health care reform drags on, some Americans are beginning to look back on ObamaCare through rose-colored glasses. Although voters put in power on Nov. 8, 2016, a party committed to repealing and replacing ObamaCare, public approval for the health law just reached 54% — ...
California
California Single-Payer Bill Looks Backward, Instead Of Forward To A New Era Of Patient Choice
Here we go again. The California State Legislature is considering yet another bill to impose a so-called single-payer, government monopoly, health care system. This has long been an obsession of the California’s nurses unions, because a health system under total government control would suit the narrow interests of union leaders. ...
Could California Become The Next Canada for Health Care?
State Sen. Ricardo Lara didn’t move to Canada following Donald Trump’s win last November, but he visited last week. While touring a major research hospital in Toronto, he said he realized that American views on providing health care are becoming more Canadian. “One fundamental difference between the United States and ...
Withholding CSR Funds Could Push More Health Plans Out
If President Trump follows through with his suggestion that he might withhold subsidy payments to insurers as a way to force Democrats to the negotiating table, the move might have little effect on his political opponents but push struggling health plans out of the ACA marketplace. The president indicated in ...
HHS Can Target Obamacare’s Medical Loss Ratio Rule Right Away
The legislative effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is on hold until Congress returns from recess. In the meantime, the executive branch can do its part to dismantle the health law’s most destructive components. The Trump administration can start by modifying Obamacare’s “medical loss ratio” rules, which dictate how insurers ...
Republicans Are The Real Defenders Of Medicaid Patients
Is Obamacare’s survival as of now a victory for the nation’s poor? That’s what the law’s supporters would have people believe. Democrats — and more than a few Republicans — maintain that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to withdraw the American Health Care Act on March 24 has saved millions ...
By Upholding The Constitution, Trump Can Breathe New Life Into “Repeal and Replace”
Republicans are still smarting from the failure of the American Health Care Act just 10 days ago. Speaker Ryan acknowledged reality when he said in the aftermath of the bills collapse, “Obamacare is the law of the land . . . for the foreseeable future.” “Foreseeable future” need not mean ...
San Francisco’s Universal Health Care Plan Eyed As Model For California
SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she’s alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It’s made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, ...
Single Payer Is Fool’s Gold For California
While the latest Republican attempt to repeal and replace ObamaCare may have failed, Democrats in California and in D.C. are just getting started in their effort to eliminate the health law. Unfortunately, they’re angling to replace ObamaCare with something even worse. In California, State Senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins ...
How Trump Can Keep The Drive To Repeal Obamacare Alive Through Executive Action
There’s no doubt about it — last week’s failure to pass the American Health Care Act was a painful setback in the fight to repeal and replace Obamacare. But Obamacare’s critics need not give up. There are plenty of executive actions the Trump administration could take to roll back the ...
ObamaCare’s Unhappy 7th Birthday
As the GOP’s fractious debate over health care reform drags on, some Americans are beginning to look back on ObamaCare through rose-colored glasses. Although voters put in power on Nov. 8, 2016, a party committed to repealing and replacing ObamaCare, public approval for the health law just reached 54% — ...
California Single-Payer Bill Looks Backward, Instead Of Forward To A New Era Of Patient Choice
Here we go again. The California State Legislature is considering yet another bill to impose a so-called single-payer, government monopoly, health care system. This has long been an obsession of the California’s nurses unions, because a health system under total government control would suit the narrow interests of union leaders. ...
