by Girish Anand | Apr 15, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
This time it’s a biggie: UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation’s largest health insurance firm, is pulling out of the Obamacare sweepstakes in Michigan, the largest state so far that it’s bailed from in the face of $500 million in yearly losses from...
by Girish Anand | Mar 28, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Six years after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka “Obamacare”), the ranks of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) recipients have swelled, while enrollees on the federal and state health...
by Girish Anand | Mar 23, 2016 | ACA, Obamacare, PPACA
It was six years ago today, on March 23, 2010, that the president signed into law his namesake legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly — but not always affectionately — known as Obamacare. In commemoration of the...
by Girish Anand | Mar 12, 2016 | CMS, Obamacare
On Dec. 31, 2015, about 8.8 million consumers had effectuated Health Insurance Marketplace coverage -– which means those individuals had paid their premiums and had an active policy at the end of December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
by Girish Anand | Feb 10, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, PPACA
Though it’s been labeled pretty much dead on arrival, President Obama’s budget for 2017 includes a request for funds to allow new states to expand their Medicaid rolls under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a two-year free ride. The original ACA...
by Girish Anand | Feb 5, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
On Jan. 31, Open Enrollment for 2016 coverage ended, with about 12.7 million plan selections through the Health Insurance Marketplaces, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reporting. Of the 12.7 million consumers enrolling in marketplace coverage,...
