by Girish Anand | Oct 23, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) over the weekend signaled he would bring the Alexander-Murray bipartisan health legislation to a floor vote if President Trump wants him to do so. Trump officials, however, said the bill needs to be expanded to axe the...
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 13, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Confirming what a federal judge had already ruled, President Trump has ended cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurance companies participating in the Obamacare marketplaces because the payments were never authorized by the House of Representatives, where all...
by Girish Anand | Oct 12, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, DOL, HHS, Obamacare
As anticipated, President Trump today signed an Executive Order that, once fully implemented, will give consumers new options for health insurance and expand employer-funder Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). The executive action orders the Department of Labor...
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...