Mitch McConnell: US Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority...
View ArticleRepublicans now want to repeal and replace Obamacare 'by the end of the year'...
Samantha Lee/Business Insider The latest Tuesday, February 17: The road to Trumpcare looks like it's about to head down the long and winding road. (More on that below.) After a week of slowly pivoting...
View ArticleSanders Must Explain These ObamaCare Failures Tonight (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) TOP TAKEAWAYS Tonight, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) will debate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on the future of ObamaCare in a CNN debate. Despite Sanders' likely efforts tonight...
View ArticlePostal Service Health Benefits and the FEHBP: The Urgent Case for Getting...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) September 14, 2016 | Backgrounder on Health Care By Walton J. Francis The 2016 Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 5714) proposes shifting postal retirees' primary health...
View ArticleWhat's Behind the Slowdown in Health Care Costs
A flood of 77 million people from the baby boomer generation have been turning 65, the age of Medicare eligibility, since 2011. These younger enrollees have been a leading factor driving down the rate...
View Article2015-2016 Insurer Annual Assessments (Arizona Department of Insurance)
(Source: Arizona Department of Insurance) NEWS: Insurer annual assessment statements were NOT mailed 7/9/2015 as previously planned. We expect statements will print 7/21/2015 and assessment payments...
View ArticleThere's a simple fix for Obamacare's current woes: the public option
This week, Aetna announced it would stop selling insurance plans in all but four Obamacare exchanges, the state-run markets set up under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Aetna, which now covers more than...
View ArticleI read 7 Republican Obamacare replacement plans. Here’s what I learned.
If there’s one thing Republicans have been clear about for the past six years, it is that the top of their agenda includes repealing Obamacare. But Obamacare repeal would leave an estimated 22 million...
View ArticleObamacare repeal: Republicans fight to end the Affordable Care Act
If there’s one thing Republicans have been clear about for the past six years, it is that the top of their agenda includes repealing Obamacare. But Obamacare repeal would leave an estimated 22 million...
View ArticleWhat we know about how Republicans might replace Obamacare
If there’s one thing Republicans have been clear about for the past six years, it is that the top of their agenda includes repealing Obamacare. But Obamacare repeal would leave an estimated 22 million...
View ArticleAlexander Calls On President to Sign Legislation to Fix Damage Caused By...
(Source: Lamar Alexander) WASHINGTON, December 3 - The chairman of the Senate health committee today called on President Obama to sign legislation to 'fix damage caused by Obamacare' and work with...
View ArticleAlexander Calls On President to Sign Legislation to Fix Damage Caused By...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) 12.03.15 'Six years ago, Republicans warned the president about the disastrous consequences of Obamacare for millions of...
View ArticleAlexander: Republican Predictions Were Right: “Obamacare Was an Historic...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) 12.01.15 WASHINGTON, December 1 - Five and a half years after the White House health care summit at Blair House, Senate health...
View ArticleAlexander: Republican Predictions Were Right: “Obamacare Was an Historic...
(Source: Lamar Alexander) WASHINGTON, December 1 - Five and a half years after the White House health care summit at Blair House, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today spoke...
View ArticleGOP pumps the brakes on Obamacare repeal, pushes for deadline extension
Facing the realities of the complicated health insurance market, Republican members of Congress have wavered over the past week on a Senate bill to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law,...
View Article$4 Trillion and Counting: President Obama’s 2016 Budget Presents a Vision of...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) On February 2, President Obama revealed his budget for fiscal year 2016-the first time the budget was released on time since 2010. His $4 trillion blueprint for the...
View ArticleHow Obamacare Went South In Mississippi
In the country’s unhealthiest state, the failure of Obamacare is a group effort. The lunch rush at Tom’s on Main in Yazoo City, Mississippi had come to a close, and the waitresses, having cleared away...
View ArticleBlueprint for Congressional Fiscal Action in the Remainder of 2015 (The...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) The national debt is more than $18 trillion, and unless corrective action is taken, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government will spend $7...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act’s Mounting Budgetary Pressures (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) To obscure the huge deficit increases from the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansions, the legislation's authors packaged those expensive components together with a...
View ArticleSix Years Of ObamaCare Failure (Republican Party)
(Source: Republican Party) __________________________________________________________________ TOP TAKEAWAYS Six years ago today, on March 23, 2010, Obamacare was signed into law but despite Obama's...
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