Health Insurance
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Plans received $28 billion in 2016 ACA advance premium aid
By Allison BellTIGTA says the agency had some trouble managing tax credit users' tax returns.
March 07, 2017
Conservatives pan GOP Obamacare plan as 'welfare'Rand Paul has called the draft 'Obamacare Lite.' Mark Walker's group is still thinking.
March 07, 2017
ACA premium tax credit mathRepublicans seem to want to keep the total amount of premium tax credit support about the same.
March 07, 2017
Selling insurance across state lines won't helpCampaigns succeed by generating easy-to-understand solutions to problems, but there are no easy answers to improving health care quality and reducing its cost.
March 06, 2017
The big new House Republican ACA change draft is hereThe new version looks much like the draft leaked earlier this month.
March 06, 2017
Republicans Unveil Bill to Repeal and Replace ObamacarePlan would create tax credits, end health insurance mandate; no estimate of proposals cost or how many will be covered.
March 06, 2017
Gilead executive says pharmacy benefit managers keep prices highJim Meyers says PBMs would rather get a cut of a rebate than see a low list price.
March 06, 2017
Supreme Court wrestles with non-ERISA state-law preemptionJustices are looking at when federal laws, and private groups' standards, can displace state laws.