by Girish Anand | Nov 8, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Health insurance giant Humana is cutting 1,300 positions, offering early retirement to another 1,150 employees and suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for breach of contract over the Obamacare risk corridor provision, as it exits from offering...
by Girish Anand | Nov 7, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
On the first day of open enrollment for Obamacare health insurance policies — Nov. 1 — some 200,000 people signed up on HealthCare.gov, double the number from 2016, according to reports in various media sources including The Hill and The Washington Post....
by Girish Anand | Nov 6, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CHIP
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a Clinton-era initiative that ran out of funds on Sept. 31, has been reauthorized by a 242-174 vote in the House of Representatives, but now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where some of the bill’s...
by Girish Anand | Nov 2, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a report “on qualified health plans (QHPs) available in the Exchange for states that use the HealthCare.gov platform, including estimates for issuer participation, health plan options, premiums, and...
by Girish Anand | Oct 26, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Saying the lawsuit by California and 17 other states would be “counterproductive,” an Obama-appointed federal judge in San Francisco has declined to order President Trump and his administration to restore cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to Obamacare...
by Girish Anand | Oct 24, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
With Obamacare open enrollment only days away, Iowa was hoping to get a waiver from the Obama administration to set up its own subsidy program for health insurance, as premiums on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace are set to soar 50 percent in the state for...