One of the only two health care companies selling insurance on Iowa’s ACA exchange is in serious financial trouble, and its collapse would mean a massive ACA failure.
The Affordable Care Act was supposed to decrease the cost of uncompensated care for insurers and hospitals. But while profits for industry giants are rising, they’re not sharing.
A new study predicts Medicaid reimbursements will see a 42.8 percent average drop—which means many doctors won’t take new patients created by the Medicaid expansion.
Some Americans who bought insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s Healthcare.gov will already have to switch to new plans or pay a hefty premium increase.
If the Supreme Court rules against the legality of the Affordable Care Act’s federal subsidies, the Democrats will have no one to blame but themselves.
Small businesses are dropping health care coverage for their employees, threatening the future of the ACA’s entire small business program and increasing the cost of the law to the taxpayer.
In 2007, 50 percent of respondents to a WSJ poll said they trusted the Democratic Party to improve the U.S. health care system, compared to 28 percent who trusted Republicans. Now that gap is 36 to 32 percent. That is, so far, the political legacy of the ACA.
Americans still feel crushed by health care costs in the Obamacare era. The reason is that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t do enough to make health care affordable.
In a health care system as dysfunctional as ours, Obamacare’s coverage expansions are beginning to seem purely symbolic. Three recent stories highlight how the law is making it harder to access care the plans will cover.
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