For lower-income Americans, the bill carves into Medicaid, shifting poor people out of the program and into private coverage where they could face deductibles reaching thousands of dollars.
In what is described as a nationwide sweep with hundreds of arrests being carried out across the U.S., the Justice Department is cracking down on fraudulent claims made to some of the nations biggest insurers.
Bright Health is preparing to offer Medicare Advantage plans in three markets next year in close collaboration with local health systems: Birmingham, Alabama; Phoenix, Arizona; and the Denver-Boulder area of Colorado.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania analyzed data on 23,442 oncologists in the U.S., evaluating how often doctors affiliated with National Cancer Institute-designated centers were covered by lower-cost insurance plans.
Anthem will now offer plans on the Affordable Care Acts exchange in just three of the Nevada's more-populated counties, after previously selling coverage statewide.
Republican Susan Collins of Maine late Monday said she would vote against a key procedural step, joining Rand Paul of Kentucky and Dean Heller of Nevada.
Health insurers live and die by political whim as well as market forces. Republicans, having stymied the laws original policy meant to cushion health plan losses, are now ready to come through with billions of dollars to put them on a solid footing.
The Senate can only stand to lose two votes in the Senate if they want to pass the American Health Care Act. Will the GOP be able to please the holdouts before a possible vote next week?
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