Tag: Affordable Care Act

Gardner Hits Udall On Obamacare

Michael Warren · August 11, 2014 6:01 pm

The Arkansas Department of Human Services says nearly 8,000 more Arkansans were approved for coverage under the state's expanded Medicaid program last month. (iStock Image)

More than 192,000 in Arkansas signed up for Medicaid

Associated Press · August 11, 2014 1:12 pm

Oracle sues Oregon over health insurance exchange

JONATHAN J. COOPERGOSIA WOZNIACKA · August 9, 2014 2:58 am

Health spending is on track to account for roughly one-fifth of U.S. gross domestic product by 2021 and it's a key driver of the nation's long-term debt. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Economic downturn explains most of health spending slowdown, study says

Philip Klein · August 7, 2014 10:00 am

By the end of June, 12.4 percent of all adults in Arkansas were without health insurance, a 10.1 percent drop compared the state's 2013 rate of 22.5 percent, say the results of a Gallup poll. (iStock)

Two red states had the sharpest drops in uninsured rate

Sean Lengell · August 5, 2014 9:45 pm

A study published in the journal Health Affairs looked at an ambitious three-year pilot program of bundled payments in California that was funded by a $2.9 million grant from Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package -- and found that the program was such a massive failure, it could hardly get off the ground. (iStock Image)

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One of Obama’s big ideas for reforming health care failed a test in California

Philip Klein · August 5, 2014 6:57 pm

Poll: Obama health law is a tale of 2 Americas

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · August 5, 2014 5:18 pm

As former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin points out, it's not just Medicare that Medicare is taking down, it's the federal budget. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Newsflash! Medicare is still going bankrupt, and taking Uncle Sam with it

Mark Tapscott · August 5, 2014 12:43 pm

Florida Obamacare Premiums To Jump Up 13.2 Percent

Michael Warren · August 5, 2014 10:04 am

Health insurers raise 2015 Fla. exchange rates

Kelli Kennedy · August 5, 2014 1:54 am

Vermont changes vendor for troubled health website

Wilson Ring · August 4, 2014 11:15 pm

Among Democrats, Obamacare's unfavorable rating jumped six points in July, while its favorable rating fell four points.

Obamacare and the public: The more they know, the less they like

Byron York · August 4, 2014 11:12 pm