The number of people signing up for Affordable Care Act plans on Healthcare.gov took a big jump over previous weeks at the deadline for open enrollment, leaving total numbers just 1.7% shy of 2018 figures. Open enrollment this year started on November 1, but was extended for more than two more days through the early… Read More: Affordable Care Act numbers stabilize at enrollment deadline »
In mid-November, a few dozen of the country’s most influential advocates of Medicare-for-all were reviewing details of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to finance the proposed government-run program when they learned that she had unexpectedly changed her position. Warren (D-Mass.), who had excited liberals when she initially embraced a Medicare-for-all idea first proposed by rival presidential… Read More: How a fight over health care entangled Elizabeth Warren —… »
If there’s one thing a majority of Americans can agree on, it’s that healthcare costs are too expensive, and they want upfront pricing. HealthPocket released results today of a pulse survey which found that 85% of U.S. adults think that healthcare costs in general are too high. Underscoring that point, 51% of those surveyed have… Read More: More than half of Americans have avoided medical care due… »
Enlarge this image A demonstrator celebrated outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 after the court voted to uphold key tax subsidies that are part of the Affordable Care Act. But federal taxes and other measures designed to pay for the health care the ACA provides have not fared as well. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty… Read More: Want New Taxes To Pay For Health Care? Lessons From… »