by Girish Anand | Oct 7, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, DOL, DOT, HHS, Obamacare
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor this week announced two companion interim final rules that provide conscience protections to Americans who have a religious or moral objection to paying for health insurance that covers...
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...
by Girish Anand | Sep 30, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, CHIP
The latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the Graham-Cassidy bill that would turn health care over to the states — never made it to vote, and with the fiscal year ending tonight, the Republicans’ chance to use the reconciliation process,...
by Girish Anand | Sep 22, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Though the votes haven’t been cast yet, today’s decision by Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) to vote no appears to be the end of the Senate’s latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) is also on the nay record, leaving Sens....
by Girish Anand | Sep 19, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare
The latest Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare in the form of the Graham-Cassidy bill got a boost on Monday when Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) indicated he might vote yea so long as his state’s governor supported the measure. Later in the day,...
by Girish Anand | Sep 17, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Medicaid
A new Republican bill that would gut the Affordable Care Act (ACAA) and replace it with block grants to the states to implement their own health care programs — even single-payer — is breathing new life into the “repeal and replace” movement...