by Girish Anand | Feb 5, 2018 | Health Care Reform, HHS, Medicaid
On Friday, Feb. 2, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved the Healthy Indiana Plan requiring some 130,000 state residents on Medicaid who aren’t already in compliance to work, enroll in school, undergo job training or volunteer for at least...
by Girish Anand | Jan 31, 2018 | Health Care Reform
Amazon, a web retailing pioneer, and investment giants Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase on Tuesday announced an initiative to enter the health care delivery field, promising quality care “at a reasonable price.” Health care stocks, and the stock...
by Girish Anand | Oct 20, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform
The latest effort to kick start health care for 2018 — a bipartisan bill to restore insurance company subsidies for low-income Americans — has drawn 24 sponsors in the U.S. Senate from both sides of the aisle, evenly divided, but still faces stiff...
by Girish Anand | Oct 17, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform
Senators Lamar Alexander (R.-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D.-Wash.) today announced they have reached agreement on a bipartisan bill that will fund cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurers serving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Obamacare) marketplaces for two...
by Girish Anand | Oct 10, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, DOL, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare
In what has been rumored for weeks, President Trump is set to move on reforms in the health insurance marketplace Obamacare by using the power of the executive order. He tweeted this morning: “Since Congress can’t get its act together on HealthCare, I will...
by Girish Anand | Oct 6, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CHIP, Health Care Reform
Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides coverage for some 9 million children nationwide, expired at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 and is now facing an uncertain renewal future. Though the Senate Finance Committee...