Residents of Maryland and Virginia face double-digit percentage increases in premiums for individual Obamacare plans in 2019, according to rate requests made by insurers.
• https://www.washingtontimes.com, By Tom Howell Jr.
Congress failed to tamp down Obamacare premiums in last week's spending bill, shifting the burden onto states, where governors and legislatures are facing growing pressure -- but few good options -- to bring down rates before companies finalize t
Those responses are no longer plausible. It turns out that across the board, for all ages and family sizes, for HMO, PPO, and POS plans, premium increases averaged about 60 percent from 2013, the last year before ACA reforms took effect, to 2017. In
The first impulse is not to ask how the problem might be solved without the use of force. In healthcare this means that the first solution to the problem of the uninsured is to force everyone into a "same size fits all" program that is controlle
Back in 2008, one of the biggest arguments in favor of Obamacare was that the legislation would help alleviate bad debt at hospitals created by people who required emergency care but didn't have health insurance or the financial means to cover their
returning health freedom to Americans...(Natural News) Earlier this year the Republican-controlled Senate was responsible for killing off a full repeal-and-replacement of Obamacare, leading many to question whether the GOP was capable of leading and
Private insurers make money by selling supplementary insurance policies (private hospital rooms, alternative therapies, those wonderful, alpine-air, Thomas Mann Magic Mountain type retreats; drug rehabilitation, dental), which are risk-adjusted. Thes
The Trump administration has prepared an executive order that would unravel Obamacare's individual mandate, but has put it on hold to see whether repealing the penalties for going uninsured might be included in the Republican tax bill instead, a GOP
Government is a big insurance company. Except you can't shop elsewhere for insurance. And their price is super high. And they threaten you if you don't want to pay them. And the services they deliver are sub-par for the price. And you can't ite
The tax reform bill to be released Thursday will not include a repeal of ObamaCare's individual mandate, sources say, despite President Trump proposing the idea on Wednesday.
The tenor of the critics' comments on this move is that it is some sort of despotic act. But let's be clear: no one is coerced by this executive order. It is exactly the reverse: it removes one source of coercion. It liberalizes, just slightly, t
The bromance between President Donald Trump and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is heating up. After Trump signed what Paul called "the biggest free-market reform of health care in a generation," the men met on the golf course
Obamacare plan premiums may increase an average of 45 percent in Florida next year due to health care insurers rate hike requests, according to Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation.
With the Republicans Obamacare repeal effort having died no less than three times over the few days, on Tuesday afternoon Republicans announced the Senate would not vote on Republicans' last-ditch bill to repeal Obamacare, putting an end to their sev
Some Republican lawmakers have embarked on a last-ditch effort to begin the dismantling of Obamacare, which is killing the insurance industry and driving up rates for tens of millions of Americans to unaffordable levels.
Senate Republicans pushing to replace Obamacare with state block grants are making real noise before their window to act closes, insisting they are just one or two votes shy and that President Trump can nudge their last-gasp bill to victory.
The Trump administration will make cost-sharing payments to insurance companies under Obamacare for August, a White House spokesman said on Wednesday, but the announcement did little to quell long-term concerns about the insurance market.
over failed Obamacare repeal ...A retired attorney in Virginia Beach is so incensed that Republicans couldn't repeal the Affordable Care Act he's suing to get political donations back, accusing the GOP of fraud and racketeering.
Senator meeting with POTUS this week. Senator Rand Paul is advising President Trump on a potential executive order to repeal and replace Obamacare, a move that he says could help millions of Americans who cannot afford skyrocketing premiums.
At 1:45am on July 28th 2017, Republican Senator John McCain together with Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted against the ObamaCare repeal in the Senate; ensuring the failing ObamaCare health care takeover and economic drag continues.
Repeal and Replace? Maintain and Enhance? Or Repeal, Pause and Listen? For seven years one of the often-heard phrases in American politics has been, "Repeal and Replace." This week, the Senate considered yet another procedural step on the circuit
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