The Affordable Care Act’s birth-control mandate requires most employers to provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to certain forms of contraceptives. In 2017, the Trump administration issued new rules that expanded an exemption from the mandate to allow private employers with religious or moral objections to opt out of providing coverage […]
OPINION ANALYSIS: Decisive Win for Health Insurers Seeking Compensation for Obamacare Losses…
Justices Grant Affordable Care Act Petitions…
Just as it did almost eight years ago, the Supreme Court will once again weigh in on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. The justices announced today that they had granted two petitions involving the ACA – one by California and a group of states, the other by Texas and a different […]
High Court Refuses to Fast-Track Obamacare Appeal…
Declining to take up the dispute before Election Day, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by the House of Representatives and a coalition of mostly Democrat-led states to expedite review of Texas’ lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act. The high court’s one-sentence order hands the Trump administration and 18 Republican-led states […]
Quelle Surprise! Study Confirms that ACA Narrow Networks Exclude Top Cancer Doctors…
Lambert and once in a great while yours truly have written about one of the nasty-by-design ways insurers game Obamacare: via so-called narrow networks. Bear in mind that there is no precise definition, but a “narrow network” is one that restricts access to specialists. We’ve pointed out that this feature can allow insurers to engage […]
Paul, Cruz, Johnson and Lee ‘Not Ready to Vote’ for Senate Healthcare Bill…
There Could Be a Tidal Wave of Bad News Coming for Obamacare…
Anthem, one of the country’s big five public health insurers, announced that it is pulling out of Ohio’s Affordable Care Act individual insurance marketplace for the 2018 plan year on Tuesday. The move will leave between 18 and 20 counties in the state with no ACA, also known as Obamacare, insurer for 2018 depending on […]
Congressman Introduces Bill Repealing Obamacare with a Single Line…
Here’s the effective text of the bill in its entirety: Effective as of Dec. 31, 2017, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted…