By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Kaiser Health News Last week, California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, promised to pursue a smörgåsbord of changes to his state’s healthcare system: state negotiation of drug prices, a requirement that every Californian have health insurance, more assistance to help middle-class Californians afford it and healthcare for undocumented immigrants up to age 26. […]
By Michelle Andrews The woman arrived at the University of South Florida’s navigator office in Tampa a few weeks ago with a 40-page document describing a short-term health insurance plan she was considering. She was uncomfortable with what the broker had said about the coverage, she told Jodi Ray, a health insurance navigator who helps […]
By Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News Voters this year have told pollsters in no uncertain terms that health care is important to them. In particular, maintaining insurance protections for preexisting conditions is the top issue to many. But the results of the midterm elections are likely to have a major impact on a broad array […]
Over the weekend, Seema Verma, administrator for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said she was suspending $10 billion in “risk adjustment” payments that helped stabilize the insurance markets created under the health law. Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent and host of KHN’s What The Health podcast, explains the national picture on the Takeaway for […]
Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News and Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Small employers will more easily be able to band together to buy health insurance under rules issued Tuesday by the Trump administration, but the change could raise premiums for plans sold through the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplaces, analysts say. The move loosens restrictions […]
Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Medicare’s financial condition has taken a turn for the worse because of predicted higher hospital spending and lower tax revenues that fund the program, the federal government reported Tuesday. In its annual report to Congress, the Medicare board of trustees said the program’s hospital insurance trust fund could run out of […]
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