The Washington Times reports that the list of Republican plans “to deal with the potential fallout” from King v. Burwell “is growing longer, although Republicans have yet to coalesce around a game plan with just six weeks before the court is expected to rule.” Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) unveiled a “revamped version” of his ACA replacement […]
If you’re about to tie the knot, do you know how a change in marital status could affect the credit you got toward health insurance when you were single? You could end up having to repay a big chunk of the money. Here’s the question and an answer that lays out the way the IRS […]
Insurance coverage for mental and physical illness remains unequal despite promises that Obamacare would help level the playing field, mental health advocates and researchers say. A new study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that consumer information on a quarter of the Obamacare plans that researchers examined appeared to go against […]
Chirlane McCray, the wife of Mayor Bill de Blasio, revealed on Wednesday that she had been surrounded by mental illness most of her life — first as a child of parents who had depression and later as a mother of a daughter who is recovering from depression, anxiety and substance abuse. In a public appeal, […]
The Affordable Care Act has made an unwieldy system of health insurance even more complicated, and should be replaced with a centralized, tax-funded health care system. That was the prevailing view at Tuesday’s all-day hearing on the New York Health Act, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried’s bill to create statewide single-payer health insurance that stands almost no […]
In an effort to slow health care spending, more employers are looking at capping what they pay for certain procedures — like joint replacements — and requiring insured workers who choose hospitals or medical facilities that exceed the cap to pay the difference themselves. But a study out Thursday finds employers might be disappointed with […]