Tag: Affordable Care Act

The mistakes of the 1990s must not be repeated. Republicans must deliver an effective replacement for Obamacare, and soon. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)

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How Republicans can avoid repeating their mistakes on health care

Adam Brandon · January 24, 2017 12:00 am

McConnell wants Democrats to drop ‘Hatfield and McCoy’ routine

Susan Ferrechio · January 23, 2017 10:24 pm

Under the three-pronged proposal, states could keep the law's main tenets in place, replace its subsidies and Medicaid expansion with money that goes directly to tax-free health savings accounts or design their own health reform without any federal assistance. (iStock photo)

New Obamacare replacement proposal leaves repeal up to states

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 23, 2017 7:23 pm

Premiums on HealthCare.gov are now 105 percent higher than average individual market rates from 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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GOP has to be careful when they repeal Obamacare

Charlie Katebi · January 23, 2017 7:17 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that the new president isn't sincere in improving health coverage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi calls Trump’s Obamacare order ‘nonsensical’

Robert King · January 23, 2017 6:58 pm

President Trump vowed not only that his healthcare plan would provide "insurance for everybody," but that it would cost less than Obamacare while having lower premiums and better insurance with lower deductibles. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Crowd size fiasco shows how Trump could try to square the circle on Obamacare

Philip Klein · January 23, 2017 6:16 pm

Deal between Humana and Aetna blocked because of antitrust concerns. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Judge blocks insurer mega merger

Robert King · January 23, 2017 5:10 pm

Known as Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, this experiment has hurt far more people than it has helped. (iStock Image)

Putting patients back in control of healthcare

Rep. Kevin Brady · January 23, 2017 5:04 am

"Healthcare will be better and will cost less when every part of Obamacare is gone," said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The end of Obamacare: Repeal and replace faces Capitol hurdles

W. James Antle III · January 23, 2017 5:01 am

Whereas liberals envision more central control as the key to a system that is better and cheaper, those on the Right have long sought to move in the opposite direction, focusing on ways to reduce costs by giving people more control over their healthcare dollars.

The end of Obamacare: Fixing healthcare the free-market way

Philip Klein · January 23, 2017 5:01 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan says criticisms of Republican plans to repeal Obamacare should take into account plans to replace the national healthcare system. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

The end of Obamacare: ‘Replace’ is the key word for health industry

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 23, 2017 5:01 am

"Women deserve to make a fair wage and the same salary as any man, they deserve to work in an office free of sexual harassment, they deserve comprehensive paid family leave, and they deserve control over their health and reproductive decisions," said Cuomo. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Cuomo requires insurers to cover contraceptives, Obamacare repeal or no

Sarah Bedford · January 22, 2017 7:55 pm