The Trump administration announced Friday that 8.2 million people signed up for ObamaCare plans for next year on the federally-run marketplace, holding roughly steady from last year’s total. The total is close to last year’s 8.3 million, the administration said, despite the fact that New Jersey and Pennsylvania’s signups are now no […]
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If you depend on Obamacare, what if it’s ultimately struck down?
The Supreme Court has heard arguments in a case that could spell the end of Obamacare, the health care law that Republicans have been seeking to overturn for more than a decade. But while it’s impossible to predict what the justices will do, some of their comments on Tuesday suggested […]
Trump’s Last, Desperate Attack On Obamacare Goes To The Supreme Court This Week
Donald Trump has lost the presidential election, but his last, desperate effort to kill the Affordable Care Act will get its day before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, when the justices hear arguments in a Republican-backed lawsuit alleging that Obamacare is unconstitutional. The case, known as California v. Texas, is […]
If you rely on Obamacare, what if it’s struck down?
If you rely on Obamacare, what if it’s struck down? The Supreme Court may be inching closer to killing off Obamacare, the health care law that Republicans have been seeking to overturn for more than a decade. The court on Tuesday hears arguments in the latest challenge to the Affordable […]
As Obamacare enrollment opens, Florida expects another record year
Open enrollment is here for the Affordable Care Act, and though premiums have gone up slightly, experts once again expect record enrollment in Florida. The coronavirus pandemic has forced more than a million of the state’s residents out of work, causing many to lose health insurance provided through their employer. […]
How to cope if Amy Coney Barrett means the end of Obamacare
How to cope if Amy Coney Barrett means the end of Obamacare An end to Obamacare looks ever more likely, as a critic of the health care law has now been given a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. On a near party-line vote of 52-48, the U.S. Senate Monday […]
How to cope if Amy Coney Barrett helps end Obamacare
How to cope if Amy Coney Barrett helps end Obamacare An end to Obamacare looks ever more likely, as a critic of the health care law has now been given a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. On a near party-line vote of 52-48, the U.S. Senate Monday evening confirmed […]
Obamacare Open Enrollment Starts Nov 1. Here’s What’s Changing This Year : Shots
Open enrollment is about to start for those buying private insurance off state or federal exchanges. PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images/PhotoAlto hide caption toggle caption PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images/PhotoAlto Open enrollment is about to start for those buying private insurance off state or federal exchanges. PhotoAlto/Frederic Cirou/Getty Images/PhotoAlto Facing a pandemic, record unemployment […]
Need health insurance? N.J. has new website supporting Obamacare so you can compare plans, prices
As the decade-old Affordable Care Act faces elimination from a Supreme Court challenge, Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced a new state-run website is available to help uninsured New Jerseyans shop for health insurance for 2021. Murphy announced last year his intent to replace Healthcare.gov with a website operated by […]
Q+A: Korbulic on Nevada Health Link upgrades, fallout if Obamacare toppled
The Nevada Health Link marketplace has more plans, more carriers and a wider range of prices this year as the open enrollment period begins for insurance plans compliant with the Affordable Care Act. “It’s never been more important to take a look at what plans exist and make sure you’re […]
GOP Confident Supreme Court Won’t Agree With GOP Lawsuit To Strike Down Obamacare
After 10 years of fighting the Affordable Care Act and against all evidence, Republicans are suddenly downplaying the threat that a Supreme Court case advanced by their own party could pose to the law. Their stated confidence in the future of Obamacare and its health care protections for millions of […]
How Obamacare, wounded and hounded, is still alive
Adam Schank and Danielle Parnass, Bloomberg Published 11:17 am EDT, Monday, October 12, 2020 The U.S. health-care law known as Obamacare is a decade old but still at existential risk. Millions of Americans have health insurance through the law enacted under President Barack Obama even after opponents have trimmed its scope. […]
Congress Could Easily Make the Obamacare Supreme Court Case Disappear. Republicans Don’t Want To.
Republicans are outraged ― outraged! ― that anyone would believe they don’t support protecting people with preexisting conditions from health insurance discrimination. They feel so strongly about this that they are doing absolutely nothing about it. Tears are flowing heavily on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail as Republicans try […]
Supreme Court Obamacare ruling could cost Ohioans health-care coverage
The thought of her son losing a guarantee of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act caused Christine Callahan to begin sobbing, choking out the words in bursts. Andrew sat next to his mother in his wheelchair from their Hudson, Ohio, home as she addressed a pair of U.S. senators and several reporters online Thursday […]
How to prepare in case Obamacare gets canceled
How to prepare in case Obamacare gets canceled Despite dozens of attempts to repeal it, the Affordable Care Act has managed to endure for more than a decade. But on Nov. 10, just a week after the presidential election, the all-encompassing health care law — nicknamed Obamacare after the president […]
How to prepare if Obamacare gets canceled
How to prepare if Obamacare gets canceled Despite dozens of attempts to repeal it, the Affordable Care Act has managed to endure for more than a decade. But on Nov. 10, just a week after the presidential election, the all-encompassing health care law — nicknamed Obamacare after the president who […]
The GOP’s stupid crusade against Obamacare
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of Insider Today. Please sign up here to receive it in your inbox. QUOTE OF THE DAY “I suspect it was more risky to visit the shopping center than to visit the gym.” — Norwegian Goril Bjerkan. Norway reopened gyms this week after […]