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With the future of Obamacare up in the air, many consumers are wondering if they must comply with the tax requirements related to the law, including whether to pay the penalty for being uninsured.
Vermont embarks on a six-year experiment to redesign health care and how it’s paid for.
Despite political peril, Obamacare business is brisk in California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Colorado.
President Barack Obama succeeded where many other presidents failed, but now the fate of the Affordable Care Act rests with President-elect Donald Trump.
In an interview and written commentary, the president comes out swinging about Republicans’ plans to delay a health law replacement, if they repeal the current law. That strategy, he said, “is, simply put, irresponsible.â€
The uncertainty over what could replace Obamacare has left many uneasy about what will happen with their medical care.
The company’s CEO also dismisses Trump’s notion of selling insurance plans across state lines, calling it ‘perplexing.’
Republicans want to jettison the health law, but some features are already hardwired into the system.
Republicans will likely chip away at the ACA piecemeal and say they will try to provide a soft exit.
The bronze plans’ lower premiums -- coupled with the health law’s out-of-pocket-spending protections -- may make these policies an attractive option.
Some major insurance companies are opting not to pay commissions for plans sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces. Will this decision make enrollment season more difficult for consumers?
Researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found more bronze and gold offerings off the exchange and better out-of-network options. But there are no subsidies.
Doctor and hospital switching is a recurring scramble for these consumers who face rising premiums and plan exits.
Medicaid enrollment and total Medicaid spending are projected to rise more slowly for 2017, but states’ tab will grow faster as the federal government begins to taper its funding for Obamacare expansions, the Kaiser Family Foundation reports in its annual 50-state survey.
Insurance customers who don’t get federal subsidies are facing double-digit premium increases in many places this year and forced to make hard choices about coverage.
Since President Barack Obama has used executive authority many times to help stabilize the law, Donald Trump could likely reverse those decisions and undermine the law.
The standardized policy options would provide a way for consumers to make apples-to-apples comparisons.
Fewer choices in 2017 health care plans await consumers in dozens of markets where Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and Humana are pulling out, but withdrawals may hit Arizona, the Carolinas, Georgia and parts of Florida hardest.
Even as the administration focuses on getting more young adults into marketplace coverage, many enrollment specialists say that this group has some difficulty transitioning from family plans or Medicaid.
Many immigrants lack access to affordable services due to lack of citizenship and legal residency.
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