By Cutting Off Obamacare's Insurer Subsidies, Trump Might Help More People Get Health Coverage
The president has finally brought the law into constitutional compliance.
The president has finally brought the law into constitutional compliance.
Trump's order reveals how Obamacare functions as a trap for policymakers.
Defenders of Obamacare's contraceptive mandate give short shrift to religious liberty.
Department of Health and Human Services officials claim the rule will not change coverage for "99.9 percent of women."
Americans might love what Sanders offers in the way of more benefits for more people. What they would hate is paying for it.
New legislation would convert the health law into a series of flat payments to states.
Premiums are on the rise and competition remains weak in much of the country.
The president is using unconstitutional insurer subsidies as negotiating leverage.
Anchoring abortion access to the insurance market won't make it more affordable. But it will result in a lot of legal drama...
The GOP health plan tacitly accepts Obamacare's central premise: that governments should micromanage insurance markets.
Accommodating religious objections to Obamacare's contraceptive mandate does not violate anyone's rights.
The House Speaker omits key information when he says the CBO confirms that the AHCA would make coverage more affordable.
The Trump administration has argued that the CBO estimates are not believable, but their own estimates showed a greater coverage decline.
The GOP's plan to repeal the health law's mandate would lead to 14 million fewer people being covered next year, according to the budget office.
People don't really want insurance.
Federal exchange enrollment is down, and insurers are threatening to pull out, as Republicans debate how to address the law.
New polls show the health law's popularity rising as Republicans struggle to come up with a plan.
The Oklahoma City Surgery Center is a model for how medical care can be better, faster, cheaper.
Paul's bill equalizes tax deductibility on insurance whether obtained through employer or not, makes creating private group insurance easier, relies on Health Savings Accounts.
As President Trump comes to town, the GOP is hedging on promises to repeal and replace Obamacare. What the hell is going on?
The idea that people won't be able to afford medical treatment without Obamacare is simply wrong.
What was Obamacare, in the end, but an arrogant overreach by an elite out of touch with the rest of America?
Premiums under the health law are set to rise by double digits, even as plan choice is decreasing.
It's an apt metaphor for the health law-but not in the way the president thinks.
The former president explains how Obamacare is failing.
Another state health insurance regulator warns of impending collapse in the individual market.
The law's failures stem from its many compromises and concessions to political reality.
Ongoing fraud vulnerabilities reveal the administration's inability to address the health law's persistent problems.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed changes to the law's risk adjustment formula in effort to calm frustrated insurers.
The debate over whether the health law should even exist has never been resolved, making policy fixes all but impossible.
Capitalism isn't to blame. It's the exact opposite.
Insurers are bolting from the health law's exchanges, and premiums are rising dramatically.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always been an alliance of big business and big government.
The health law falters as yet another major insurer pulls back from the exchanges.
President revives public option proposal to foster competition in the health law's exchanges.
New Republican replacement plan is barely a plan at all.
Vermont joins Maryland in extending the "free birth control" mandate to cover vasectomies.
The new state law expands on Obamacare's controversial contraception mandate.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case today.
Veterans may not now have a choice of where to go for health care. But they will have a choice in November's election, as we all will.
People are gaming the system, and losses in the health law's exchanges are piling up.
It's not full repeal. And it won't pass. But it's still worth doing.
Premiums are rising and enrollment is stagnating as the health law heads into its third year.