A Critical Look At American Healthcare Shows A System Out Of Control
With sign-up for the national low-cost health insurance program — so-called “Obamacare” — in full swing under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), hope that medical costs will finally...
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Rand Paul Ups The Ante On Anti-Obamacare Partisanship
A photo of Rand Paul at the Paducah Forum Debate in Paducah, Kentucky. (Photo/Gage Skidmore via Flickr) On Monday, President Obama spoke to the nation about the difficulties in rolling out the...
View ArticleInsurance Companies, Employers Canceling Health Care Plans: Obamacare To Blame?
Since the Oct. 1 rollout of the Affordable Care Act’s health care insurance exchanges, the number of problems facing the experiment in offering health insurance to the uninsured has only increased....
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Loyal Obama Supporters, Canceled by Obamacare
Protestors rally outside the Washington D.C. Capitol in this March 2012 photo. (Photo/majunznk via Flickr) San Francisco architect Lee Hammack says he and his wife, JoEllen Brothers, are “cradle...
View ArticleDems Offer Fix To Obama’s ‘Broken Promise’ On Keeping Health Insurance Policies
Since 2008, President Barack Obama repeated publicly that his healthcare reform plan, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), would not cause any Americans to lose their health insurance...
View ArticleHealth Insurance Companies Persist In Selling “Crappy” Policies Amid ACA Chaos
As the number of individual health care policies that have been cancelled allegedly because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act continues to increase, including the recent announcement...
View ArticleJustice Delays Health Law’s Birth Control Mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only hours before the law was to take effect, a Supreme Court justice on Tuesday blocked implementation of part of President Barack Obama’s health care law that would have forced...
View ArticleFACT CHECK: Obama And Medicare Premiums
WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems to be something of an occupational hazard for President Barack Obama: When he talks about his health care law, he’s bound to hit a fact bump sooner or later. So it went...
View ArticleVocal Minority Blocks Low-Income Health Insurance Option In Ark.
In Arkansas, a small but vocal coalition in the state House blocked, for the third time, a bill that would continue funding of the state’s “private option” Medicaid expansion. The rejection of the...
View ArticleAmerican Health Insurance Isn’t A Year-round Thing Anymore
WASHINGTON — Here’s more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go online to buy standard health care coverage any time of year. Not anymore....
View ArticleTrump Taps Obamacare Critic To Lead Department Of Health
US President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate Georgia Congressman Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The orthopedic surgeon is a critic of...
View ArticleObamacare Is A Failure, But It Will Only ‘Explode’ If Trump Sabotages It
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The American Health Care Act has gone down in a blaze of glory. It is time to focus on what President Donald Trump has long said would be his plan B. Trump...
View ArticleTrump Team Seeks Friday Passage Of Revised Healthcare Bill
Just over a week after the Republicans’ embarrassing failure to repeal Obamacare as a result of infighting with both conservative and moderate factions, on Monday White House officials led by the vice...
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Ohio Man Documents Cost Of Daughter’s Cancer Treatment To Highlight Danger Of...
(Photo: Eric Meyer) The nearly $2 million in hospital bills was the result of receiving treatments for only 10 months. Any day now, the Senate will stop revising and vote on the Better Care...
View ArticleAmericans Can No Longer Afford to Get Sick and There’s a Reason Why
Opinion — A growing number of Americans are struggling to stretch their dollars far enough to pay their bills, get out of debt and ensure that if and when an illness arises, it doesn’t bankrupt them....
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Health Insurance Companies Persist In Selling “Crappy” Policies Amid ACA Chaos
Suze Diogene, left, a certified application counselor, gives Audrey Allen information about health care, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 at the Jessie Trice Community Health Center in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo...
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Justice Delays Health Law’s Birth Control Mandate
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks about her best-selling memoir, “My Beloved World,” during an appearance at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP...
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FACT CHECK: Obama And Medicare Premiums
President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool) WASHINGTON (AP)...
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Vocal Minority Blocks Low-Income Health Insurance Option In Ark.
In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, legislators gather in the House chamber for the opening of the 2014 Fiscal session at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, Feb. 10, 2014....
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American Health Insurance Isn’t A Year-round Thing Anymore
Elizabeth Rich helps a man sign up for the Affordable Care Act at Swope Health Services in Kansas City, Mo. (AP/Charlie Riedel) WASHINGTON — Here’s more fallout from the health care law: Until now,...
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