Obamacare
Commentary
GOP Will Fix Health Insurance With High-Risk Pools
Congressional Republicans are counting the days until Donald Trump assumes the Oval Office – and they can finally give voters what they asked for on Nov. 8: a repeal and replacement of Obamacare. Democrats claim that repeal will jeopardize the ability of those with preexisting conditions to access affordable health ...
Commentary
The Obamacare Law Devours Itself With Exemptions Amid 5 Million (And Counting) Cancellations
Nearly five million people have had their health insurance policies cancelled because of Obamacare. Their coverage didnt meet the laws lofty specifications for covered benefits. So they were told theyd have to secure more generous and more expensive insurance. Needless to say, they werent too pleased. And they ...
Business & Economics
Drug Importation Is Not The Answer
The imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is garnering most of the health care headlines, and rightly so. But, the focus on Obamacare should not overshadow other health care modifications that may be considered during the 115th Congress. Paramount among these proposals is the issue of drug ...
Commentary
Why The GOP Must Repeal And Replace Obamacare, Not Repeal And Delay
Both President Obama and Vice President-elect Mike Pence traveled to Capitol Hill Wednesday for separate sessions to plot the fate of Obamacare. The president’s meeting with congressional Democrats only underscored how powerless his party is to stop a repeal of Obamacare. The get-together yielded little more than slogans and epithets. ...
Health Care
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Blog
Medicaid Endangers Lives; Block Grants Can Save Them
Democrats and their enablers in the media are hyperventilating about the GOP’s drive to cap federal Medicaid funding with a series of “block grants” to the states as part of their replacement plan for Obamacare. “25 million people could lose health insurance,” blared the Washington Post. NBC grimly pronounced that ...
Health Care
Californians With Pre-Existing Conditions Worried About Health Care Future
San Jose Mercury News (also ran in other Bay Area News Group newspapers) Atherton resident Evan Collins lives in the nation’s second priciest ZIP code, where $4 million barely buys you a fixer-upper. Yet when it comes to health insurance, Collins — like many Bay Area residents of all incomes ...
Commentary
In The Age of Obamacare, Americans Are Less Healthy
Defenders of Obamacare just got a nasty reality check. The law was supposed to help Americans improve their health by expanding access to coverage. Yet almost seven years after Obamacare’s passage and three years after the exchanges opened for business, Americans’ health is deteriorating at an alarming rate, according to ...
Commentary
To Fix Health Care, Stop Defending Obamacare
If there was any doubt that the Affordable Care Act has utterly failed, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund should put it to rest. According to the report, Americans are more likely to forgo necessary care because of financial concerns and to struggle with their health bills than their ...
Commentary
Forging A Post-Obamacare Health Policy Debate
The end of Obamacare is near. But while Republican lawmakers plan on repealing the law early in 2017, they may take as long as three years to finalize Obamacare’s replacement. In other words, the debate over the future of America’s health system is just beginning. Democrats are certain to use ...
GOP Will Fix Health Insurance With High-Risk Pools
Congressional Republicans are counting the days until Donald Trump assumes the Oval Office – and they can finally give voters what they asked for on Nov. 8: a repeal and replacement of Obamacare. Democrats claim that repeal will jeopardize the ability of those with preexisting conditions to access affordable health ...
The Obamacare Law Devours Itself With Exemptions Amid 5 Million (And Counting) Cancellations
Nearly five million people have had their health insurance policies cancelled because of Obamacare. Their coverage didnt meet the laws lofty specifications for covered benefits. So they were told theyd have to secure more generous and more expensive insurance. Needless to say, they werent too pleased. And they ...
Drug Importation Is Not The Answer
The imminent repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is garnering most of the health care headlines, and rightly so. But, the focus on Obamacare should not overshadow other health care modifications that may be considered during the 115th Congress. Paramount among these proposals is the issue of drug ...
Why The GOP Must Repeal And Replace Obamacare, Not Repeal And Delay
Both President Obama and Vice President-elect Mike Pence traveled to Capitol Hill Wednesday for separate sessions to plot the fate of Obamacare. The president’s meeting with congressional Democrats only underscored how powerless his party is to stop a repeal of Obamacare. The get-together yielded little more than slogans and epithets. ...
Post-Election Top Policy Changes To Watch In 2017
While every new year brings change, with Donald Trump elected to become the next president and the U.S. House and Senate both having Republican majorities, managed healthcare executives will see more changes than usual in 2017—beginning with repealing and replacing most of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ...
Medicaid Endangers Lives; Block Grants Can Save Them
Democrats and their enablers in the media are hyperventilating about the GOP’s drive to cap federal Medicaid funding with a series of “block grants” to the states as part of their replacement plan for Obamacare. “25 million people could lose health insurance,” blared the Washington Post. NBC grimly pronounced that ...
Californians With Pre-Existing Conditions Worried About Health Care Future
San Jose Mercury News (also ran in other Bay Area News Group newspapers) Atherton resident Evan Collins lives in the nation’s second priciest ZIP code, where $4 million barely buys you a fixer-upper. Yet when it comes to health insurance, Collins — like many Bay Area residents of all incomes ...
In The Age of Obamacare, Americans Are Less Healthy
Defenders of Obamacare just got a nasty reality check. The law was supposed to help Americans improve their health by expanding access to coverage. Yet almost seven years after Obamacare’s passage and three years after the exchanges opened for business, Americans’ health is deteriorating at an alarming rate, according to ...
To Fix Health Care, Stop Defending Obamacare
If there was any doubt that the Affordable Care Act has utterly failed, a new study by the Commonwealth Fund should put it to rest. According to the report, Americans are more likely to forgo necessary care because of financial concerns and to struggle with their health bills than their ...
Forging A Post-Obamacare Health Policy Debate
The end of Obamacare is near. But while Republican lawmakers plan on repealing the law early in 2017, they may take as long as three years to finalize Obamacare’s replacement. In other words, the debate over the future of America’s health system is just beginning. Democrats are certain to use ...
