Miss. Dems: We Were ‘Bamboozled’ On Medicaid
With just two days to spare, and with plenty of political drama, Mississippi lawmakers approved a plan late Friday to renew Medicaid for another year. The joint federal-state program, which provides...
View ArticleA look at ins and outs of health care reform
Some call the Affordable Care Act (ACA) a huge over-reach by the federal government, and a few even use the "S word" -- socialism. Others say it a gallant attempt to cover most U.S. citizens and...
View ArticleCommunity Health Centers – In Every State – Get Obamacare...
The nation’s community health centers — which treat the poor and uninsured– apparently know a good deal when they see one. Nearly all 1,200 federally funded community health centers applied for and...
View ArticleFederal Rule Extends Subsidies For College Students
Beginning in 2014, most people, including students, will have to have health insurance, whether or not they are claimed as a dependent on their parents’ tax returns. The federal health law says if...
View ArticleHealth 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 ArticleThousands Of Mississippi Consumers May Not Be Offered Insurance Subsidies
Tens of thousands of uninsured residents in the poorest and most rural parts of Mississippi may be unable to get subsidies to buy health coverage when a new online marketplace opens this fall because...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about the postponed health mandate
WASHINGTON • Surprising both friends and foes of the health law, the Obama administration on Tuesday announced the delay of a key provision: the requirement that all but the smallest employers offer...
View ArticleHealth law raises questions about subsidies for the purchase of insurance
This week, I answer readers’ questions about how income and other assets will affect health insurance choices and responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act, and whether having access to a student...
View ArticleIncome -- Not Assets -- Will Determine Subsidies In Online Insurance...
This week, I answer readers' questions about how income and other assets will affect health insurance choices and responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act, and whether having access to...
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...
View ArticleBusiness Groups, Consumer Advocates, Politicians, Policy Makers React To...
Opponents of the federal health law, especially business groups and conservatives, were quick to praise the decision by the Obama administration to delay enforcing the employer mandate provision by...
View ArticleNFL’s Help Sought On Promoting Obamacare Insurance Plans
Top federal health officials are in talks with the National Football League to promote the health law’s insurance marketplaces that begin enrolling people Oct 1. “The NFL is enthusiastically engaged …...
View ArticleMedicaid agency gearing up for questions on law
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's Medicaid agency is ramping up its call center in expectation of a surge of questions about the federal health care law. Deputy Director John Supra said the...
View Article14 insurers propose plans for Michigan health exchange
Karen Bouffard The Detroit News Comments Fourteen companies have filed paperwork to sell plans on Michigans health insurance exchange starting Oct. 1, and consumers can expect to be bombarded with a...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Within Reach
By RONI CARYN RABIN The Consumer Advice on money and health. Ever since Marci Lieber, a part-time social worker in Brooklyn, learned she was pregnant, she and her husband have been scrambling to find...
View ArticleWhat Now? Q&A About Latest Snag in Health Care Law
WASHINGTON — Nothing's ever easy with President Barack Obama's health care law. The latest hitch gives employers an additional year before they must offer medical coverage to their workers or pay a...
View ArticleMedicaid coverage gap looms
The Daily Briefing Photo of Kasich signing the state budget that includes anti-abortion language surrounded by all men goes viral.... Buckeye Forum Podcast The Dispatch public affairs team talks...
View ArticleA big Medicaid gap looms in Obama health care law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 2 in 3 uninsured low-income people who would qualify for subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law may be out of luck next year because their states...
View ArticleA Handful Of State Marketplaces Opt Not To Charge Smokers More For Premiums
Since smokers' health-care costs tend to be higher than those of nonsmokers, is it reasonable for smokers to pay higher premiums when they buy insurance through the new state marketplaces...
View ArticleHouse GOP Unconvinced Health Insurance Exchange Information Will Be Secure
With the NSA’s phone call monitoring and Edward Snowden on many minds, it’s not exactly a comfortable time for the government to roll out a massive computer project dealing with personal data like...
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