Those Left Out Of Medicaid Expansion Won’t Have To Buy Insurance
Low-income Americans who live in states that have decided not to expand Medicaid eligibility will not face penalties if they fail to buy insurance next year. That’s according to a on exemptions to the...
View ArticleReaders Ask How Divorce, Student Status Will Affect Marketplace Applications
As the open enrollment period continues for coverage on the state health insurance marketplaces, people continue to have many questions about buying a plan there. A. If a couple divorces, each person’s...
View ArticleIn states not expanding Medicaid, poor could still get Obamacare help
WASHINGTON • Some of the millions of poor people expected to lose out on Obamacare coverage next year because their states are not expanding Medicaid might have a way to get help, but the strategy...
View ArticleNearly Half Of U.S. Births Are Covered By Medicaid, Study Finds
About half the births in the United States are paid for by Medicaid — a figure higher than previous estimates – and the numbers could increase as the state-federal health insurance program expands...
View ArticleObamacare enrollment deadline: Millions without health insurance seek to...
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Stephanie Daugherty earns too much from her part-time job at a doctor's office to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to comfortably afford one of the health plans for sale...
View ArticleCould Medicaid Expansion Debate Turn Into An Immigration Issue?
Florida lawmakers backing expansion of the state’s Medicaid program plan to mount a new argument this legislative session: That voting against extending the program would deprive low-income U.S....
View ArticleIRS Ruling On Same-Sex Couples Has Implications For Health Law
Thursday’s announcement that the federal government will give the same tax treatment to legally married same-sex couples as they do to heterosexual couples may have ripple effects for the 2010 health...
View ArticleReaders Ask: What Options Do Parents Have To Get Coverage For Their Kids?
As the October launch of the state health insurance marketplaces approaches, parents have many questions about covering their children. Q. Why is it that the adult children of retired members of the...
View ArticleFederal Insurance Marketplace Can’t Yet ‘Talk’ To State Medicaid Agencies
The health law’s online insurance exchanges were supposed to be a one-stop shop where consumers browsing for coverage could enroll in a private health plan or in Medicaid if they qualified. But that...
View ArticleReport: 5.2 Million Adults Will Fall Into ACA Coverage Gap Next Year
About 5.2 million poor, uninsured adults will fall into the “coverage gap,” created by 26 states choosing not to expand Medicaid under the federal health law next year, according to a study released...
View ArticleSix Things That May Move Public Perception Of Obamacare
Nearly four years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law promising the biggest expansion of health care coverage in half a century, the public remains deeply split over...
View ArticleHow Much Of A Subsidy Will You Get In Obamacare? Here’s An Estimate
If you buy your own health insurance, you’ve no doubt heard that subsidies will be available next year to help pay the premiums. But will you get a subsidy and how much? Researchers at the Kaiser...
View ArticleEstimate the subsidy you'll get in Obamacare
If you buy your own health insurance, you’ve no doubt heard that subsidies will be available next year to help pay the premiums. But will you get a subsidy and how much? Researchers at the Kaiser...
View ArticleSouth Carolina rejected Medicaid expansion, but numbers will still go up
Kaiser Health News WASHINGTON — Like half the states, South Carolina chose not to expand Medicaid under the federal health law next year, citing the program’s high costs and inefficiency. Yet state...
View ArticleReport: Even States Not Expanding Medicaid Will See Surge In Spending,...
Medicaid enrollment is expected to surge by nearly 12 percent next year in states expanding the program under the health law, but even states that will not expand eligibility project a 5 percent jump...
View ArticleLaw Will Shift Demographics For Medicaid Toward Healthier Group, Study Finds
The health law is expected to change the face of Medicaid – literally. As part of the federal overhaul, some states have opted to expand in January this state-federal health insurance program for low...
View ArticleState’s poorest could be left without health insurance if Medicaid expansion...
Related Items If Gov. John Kasich decides against expanding the state’s Medicaid program, more than 600,000 of the poorest Ohioans could remain without health insurance while those with slightly higher...
View ArticleFinding health insurance options after the Affordable Care Act
Open enrollment for the new health care marketplace is well underway, and 20- and 30-somethings are signing up for coverage. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, more than half a...
View Article1.46 Million Determined To Be Eligible for Medicaid And CHIP In October
After two months of media shellacking, healthcare.gov website woes and a series of skeptical congressional grillings, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was accentuating the...
View ArticleTexas Health Care Providers Bracing for Medicaid Enrollment
Under Gov. Rick Perry’s leadership, Texas will not expand Medicaid eligibility to poor adults. But enrollment in the state’s health program for indigent children and the disabled will still swell in...
View ArticleWithout Medicaid expansion, many in SC won't benefit from Obamacare
GREENVILLE, SC — Some 5.2 million Americans, including 194,330 South Carolinians, wont qualify for either Medicaid or subsidies to purchase insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Kaiser Family...
View ArticleTwo Years In, A Consumer Guide To Health Reform Law
Friday marks the two-year anniversary of the 2010 health care overhaul law, and despite an upcoming challenge in the Supreme Court, it has already begun to be implemented. While some of the key...
View ArticleAs of today, millions will have insurance options
Today is the day: If all goes as planned, the health-insurance marketplaces, the centerpiece of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, are scheduled to go live in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The...
View ArticleThe Health Law Takes Effect: A Consumer’s Guide
Starting Jan. 1, central provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in, allowing many uninsured Americans to afford health insurance. But the landmark law still faces heavy opposition from Republicans...
View ArticleReport: Health insurance “gap” to affect 5.2 million in Florida, 25 other states
About 5.2 million poor, uninsured adults will fall into the “coverage gap,” created by 26 states choosing not to expand Medicaid under the federal health law next year, a study released today by the...
View ArticleMinorities comprise bulk of uninsured adults in Texas Medicaid gap
The Texas Tribune Minorities make up nearly three-quarters of the uninsured adults in the “coverage gap” created when Texas declined to expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act,...
View ArticleUnder the new health law, can my insurer charge me for name-brand...
This week, I answer readers’ questions about birth-control coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act and subsidized coverage on the state-based health insurance exchanges. Q: Regarding...
View ArticleCourt challenge could result in Medicaid cutbacks instead of expansion
The future of the nation’s largest health insurance program -- Medicaid -- hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on the 2010 health law. The state-federal program which covers 60 million...
View ArticleAfter the ruling: A consumer's guide
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the 2010 federal health care law, dismissing the challenge by states to the law’s requirement that individuals get insurance. The justices, however, did give states...
View ArticleLouie Gohmert’s Health Care Hooey
Rep. Louie Gohmert is wrong when he says a “poor guy out there making $14,000″ is “going to pay extra income tax if he cannot afford to pay the several thousand dollars for an Obamacare policy.” In...
View ArticleAwaiting the court ruling, a consumer guide to health reform law
The Supreme Court is expected to rule within a week on some key constitutional challenges brought by states against the 2010 health care overhaul law. The decision will have sweeping ramifications for...
View ArticleAnswers to questions about the health care law
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is expected to rule by the end of this month on some key constitutional challenges brought by states against the 2010 health care overhaul law. The decision will have...
View ArticleWhat consumers should know about health care law
The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the 2010 federal health care law, dismissing the challenge by states to the law’s requirement that individuals get insurance. The justices, however, did give states...
View ArticleSupreme Court health care ruling allows states to cut off Medicaid to those...
WASHINGTON - Starting in 2014, things could get worse for people on Medicaid: Not only might some states opt out of increasing the number of adults in the government health-insurance program for the...
View ArticleReaders Ask: Are Premium Subsidies Permanent; Do I Have To Meet An Asset Test...
Q. Are the subsidies under the health law a permanent fixture, or are they only required for the first two or three years, and then we’ll be expected to pay the full premium? A. Unless Congress and the...
View ArticleExpert responses to commonly asked questions about the individual mandate
Tuesday is the day: If all goes as planned, that’s when the health insurance marketplaces, the centerpiece of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, are scheduled to go live. The marketplaces, also known as...
View ArticleThose Left Out Of Medicaid Expansion Won't Have To Buy Insurance
Low-income Americans who live in states that have decided not to expand Medicaid eligibility will not face penalties if they fail to buy insurance next year. That’s according to a on exemptions to the...
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