GOP Tax Plan Leaves 401k Rules Intact – For Now

House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a tax cut plan that would slash the corporate rate and lower the personal taxes of most Americans but also limit a cherished deduction for homeowners, as President Donald Trump and the GOP seek to deliver on the first tax revamp in three decades.

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Trump Suggests Repealing Obamacare Mandate In Tax Bill

President Trump on Wednesday suggested using the GOP tax bill to repeal ObamaCare’s individual mandate.

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Change And Confusion As Obamacare Open Enrollment Begins

The Republican-dominated Congress has debated its end repeatedly. President Donald Trump has eliminated subsidies to participating insurers. And 90 percent of its outreach and advertising budget was killed.

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Facing Shortened Timeline, Nevada’s Exchange, Brokers Gear Up For Obamacare Open Enrollment

Against a backdrop of months of congressional debate and executive action on Obamacare, Nevada’s health insurance exchange, brokers and other advocates are battening down the hatches ahead of the sixth open enrollment period — and what could be the most challenging one yet.

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Open Enrollment Starts Tomorrow to Consumer Confusion

The calls from Bay Area consumers worried about their 2018 Obamacare health care plans keep filling up Kelley Filice Jensen’s voicemail.

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CVS-Aetna? Expect More Strange Bedfellows As Competition from Amazon Grows

If CVS Health’s reported $66-billion bid to acquire health insurer Aetna is approved, it could give the retail pharmacy chain an infusion of customers through Aetna’s members and more leverage when it negotiates drug prices.

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Kevin de Leon Vows to Back Medicare for All, Signaling Key Issue in 2018 Senate Campaign

State Senate leader Kevin de León's opening salvo in the U.S. Senate race against Sen. Dianne Feinstein takes on one of the main frustrations progressives have voiced with her, a refusal to support single-payer health care.

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Trump’s ObamaCare Move May Bolster Law

President Trump’s decision to cancel key ObamaCare payments could be backfiring.  Trump has claimed the health-care law is “imploding,” and earlier this month he took an action seemingly aimed at that goal: cutting off subsidy payments to insurers known as cost-sharing reductions. 

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Big Gains In Latino Coverage Poised To Slip During Chaotic Enrollment Season

Latinos, who just a year ago were highly sought customers for the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace plans may not get the same hard sell this year.

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States Running Out of Cash for Children’s Health Insurance

Uncertainty about the future of an insurance program for children is sparking panic at the state level as officials scramble to keep their coverage going.

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