New Special Enrollment Rules Will Shift Paperwork Burden To Consumers

People who want to sign up for a policy on healthcare.gov after the annual open enrollment period ends Jan. 31 may have to produce a paper trail proving that they qualify for a “special enrollment period” before their coverage can begin, according to details of a pilot program described last week by federal officials.

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Premium Hikes Add $10B to Taxpayers’ Health Law Tab

Taxpayers will fork over nearly $10 billion more next year to cover double-digit premium hikes for subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's law, according to a study being released Thursday.

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Anthem-Cigna Merger Goes to Judge for Ruling That Could End Deal

The first phase of the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit to halt Anthem Inc.’s planned takeover of rival insurer Cigna Corp. is in the hands of a federal judge after the government wrapped up its arguments Tuesday that the deal would harm competition in the national insurance market.

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Health Insurers Get 1.6 Percent of $6 Billion They Are Owed for Costly ACA Customers

Hundreds of insurers selling health plans in Affordable Care Act marketplaces are being paid less than 2 percent of nearly $6 billion the government owes them for covering customers last year with unexpectedly high medical expenses.

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Faced With Unaffordable Drug Prices, Tens Of Millions Buy Medicine Outside U.S.

As drug prices have spiraled upward in the past decade, tens of millions of generally law-abiding Americans have committed an illegal act in response: They have bought prescriptions outside the U.S. and imported them.

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Is Trump the First Crack in the Drug Industry’s Right Flank?

Donald Trump is unorthodox, to say the least, when it comes to his opinions about the drug industry.

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CMS Finalizes Rules for the Health Insurance Marketplace, Improving Stability

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued the following news release:

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For Conservatives, It’s A New Day In Health Care

With Donald Trump’s recent appointment of Republican Rep. Tom Price to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, President-elect Trump’s promise to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act seems likely to happen.

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GOP Plans to Replace Health Care Law With ‘Universal Access’

House Republicans, responding to criticism that repealing the Affordable Care Act would leave millions without health insurance, said on Thursday that their goal in replacing President Obama’s health law was to guarantee “universal access” to health care and coverage, not necessarily to ensure that everyone actually has insurance.

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Obama Announces Record Sign-Ups For A Single Day In ACA Marketplaces

President Obama used his final pre-Christmas news conference to tout anew the popularity of the sprawling health-care law that his successor wants to abolish, announcing that sign-ups in Affordable Care Act market­places just hit an all-time record for a single day.

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