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Affordable Care Act
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Focus shifts to states’ efforts in health policy
States are going to have unprecedented opportunities to shape health care policy during the next couple years, as President Trump’s…
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ACA enrollment holds quite steady for 2018
The final 2018 ACA marketplace enrollment figures are out – and they are higher than many people had expected going…
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Health advocates, legislators wrestle with Medicaid work requirements
Three states – Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas – have now gotten permission from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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Verma participates in first of promised series of ’roundtables’ with reporters
Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, held her first on-the-record, in-person meeting with reporters…
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Another bid at ACA stabilization – and likely another failure
Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray are circulating a new “ACA stabilization” plan that in some ways is more ambitious than…
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Potential pros, cons of those short-term health plans
As promised, the Trump administration has released a proposed rule to allow short-term health insurance plans that do not conform…
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Talking of wishes and waivers in Phoenix at #AHCJ18
When the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010, one of its clear intents was to create a lot more…
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A check-up on the status of the health exchanges
Remember when Sen. Susan Collins, Maine’s moderate Republican, predicated her vote for the Senate tax bill that included the repeal…
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Tennessee provides possible preview of health insurance markets
President Trump says he wants to encourage the formation of “association health plans” that would better enable small employers to…
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Making sense of how the new tax bill will impact health care
The House and the Senate both have passed tax bills which have provisions that will deeply affect health care, ranging…