How Will People Who Are Already Sick Be Treated Under A New Health Law?
Many people are worried about how potential changes to the federal health law might affect them. But few are as concerned as those with pre-existing health conditions. The Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
View ArticleTax Day And Health Insurance Under Trump
Your federal income taxes are due April 18 this year, and — for perhaps several million people — a fine for failing to get health insurance is due that day, too. Despite a lengthy debate, Congress has...
View ArticleGOP Plan To Trim Insurance Benefits Might Not Tame Premiums
As House Republicans try to find common cause on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they may be ready to let states make the ultimate decision about whether to keep a key provision...
View ArticleAs House GOP Struggles With A Health Care Bill, Republican Options Narrow
Updated 5 pm April 3, 2017 to include the proposed Upton amendment. The House may yet pass its bill to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act. But Republicans' options to fulfill their...
View Article5 Things To Watch As GOP Health Bill Moves To The Senate
After weeks of will-they-or-won't-they tensions, the House managed to pass its GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act on Thursday by a razor-thin margin. The vote was 217-213. Democrats who lost...
View ArticleAs GOP Tarries On Health Bill, Funding For Children's Health Languishes
Back in January, Republicans boasted they would deliver a "repeal and replace" bill for the Affordable Care Act to President Donald Trump's desk by the end of the month. In the interim, that bravado...
View ArticleIf The Individual Insurance Market Crashes, Can People Still Get Coverage?
In his high-stakes strategy to overhaul the federal health law, President Donald Trump is threatening to upend the individual health insurance market. But if the market actually breaks, could anyone...
View ArticleRobust Health Insurance Sign-Ups Surprise Supporters And Opponents
A day after President Trump said the Affordable Care Act "has been repealed," officials reported that 8.8 million Americans have signed up for coverage on the federal insurance exchange for 2018 —...
View ArticleIn Trump's First Year, Anti-Abortion Forces Make Strides
As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised abortion opponents four specific actions to "advance the rights of unborn children and their mothers." One year into his presidency, three of those...
View ArticleTime Running Short For Congress To Stabilize Individual Insurance Market
A bipartisan group of senators and House members has been working since last summer toward measures to keep prices from rising out of control and undermining the individual market—the market that...
View ArticleClash Over Abortion Stalls Health Bill, Again
The Affordable Care Act very nearly failed to become law back in 2010 because of a dispute among Democrats over how to handle abortion in the bill. Now a similar argument between Democrats and...
View ArticleWhat To Watch For As Trump Takes Aim At ACA Protections
The Trump administration is refusing to defend key parts of the Affordable Care Act, essentially arguing that federal courts should find the health law's protections for people with pre-existing...
View ArticleAtul Gawande's Aim For Health Care: 'Make It Simpler To Do The Right Thing'
Dr. Atul Gawande, the surgeon-writer-researcher chosen to lead a joint health venture by three prominent employers who hope to bring down health costs, says his biggest goal is to help professionals...
View ArticleIf High Court Reverses Roe v. Wade, 22 States Likely To Ban Abortion
What would the U.S. look like without Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide? That's the question now that President Trump has chosen conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his...
View ArticleDemocrats Say Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Is A Threat To The ACA
Senate Democrats, who are divided on abortion policy, are instead turning to health care as a rallying cry for opposition to Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Specifically, they...
View ArticleNYU's Move To Make Medical School Free For All Gets Mixed Reviews
New York University's School of Medicine is learning that no good deed goes unpunished. The highly ranked medical school announced with much fanfare this month that it is raising $600 million from...
View ArticleGOP Revives Medicare Scare Tactics As Election Nears
Once again, Medicare is moving front and center in this fall's campaigns. Throughout the election season, Democrats have been criticizing Republicans over votes and lawsuits that would eliminate...
View Article5 Ways Nixing The Affordable Care Act Could Upend U.S. Health System
If last Friday's district court ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional were to be upheld, far more than the law's most high-profile provisions would be at stake. In fact, canceling the...
View ArticleWhere U.S. Battles Over Abortion Will Play Out In 2019
With Democrats now in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, it might appear that the fight over abortion rights has become a standoff. After all, abortion-rights supporters within the...
View ArticleFoes Of Trump's Restrictions On Family Planning Clinics See Law On Their Side
State attorneys general and women's health advocates who are hoping to block in court new Trump administration rules for Title X, the federal family planning program, face one major obstacle: The...
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