Asheville Citizen-Times By: Mark Barrett Federal spending to help lower- and middle-income wage earners buy health insurance would drop dramatically in North Carolina under the health care law winning approval in the U.S. House last week. … But the fact that the risk pool’s books balanced doesn’t mean that those who were covered could balance […]
Indianapolis Star By: Maureen Groppe WASHINGTON – More than half the low-income people who qualified for Indiana’s alternative Medicaid program failed to make a monthly payment required for the top tier of service — a key feature of the program Vice President Mike Pence insisted on as a condition to expanding the health care program […]
Modern Healthcare By: Harris Meyer Passage of the House Republicans’ healthcare overhaul bill may have created political and policy complications for the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, whose funding will end in September unless Congress reauthorizes it. … “Rolling CHIP into the broader debate would be very unfortunate,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the […]
Arizona Republic By: Ken Alltucker House Republicans this week pushed through legislation that seeks to dramatically overhaul the government-funded insurance program that covers nearly 2 million low-income and disabled Arizonans. … In Arizona’s initial waiver application, the state said that its proposals would have a “positive effect on budget neutrality” without providing data to back up that claim, according […]
Romper By: Josie Rhodes Cook On Thursday, the House voted to break up aspects of the Affordable Care Act and replace the nation’s health care system with the American Health Care Act instead. Before the vote, several physician groups as well as patient-advocacy groups spoke out against the AHCA. Now, following it’s passing, the American Academy […]
Vox By: Dylan Matthews The actual policies contained in the American Health Care Act — the Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill that the House is voting on Thursday — would help some Americans a lot. The biggest winners are households making $250,000 a year or more, who would see two different taxes targeting them repealed; households with millions in investment income […]
