Planned Medicaid Overhaul Could Put GOP Governors in an Awkward Spot

Republicans set on rapidly dismantling the Affordable Care Act are also pushing an overhaul of Medicaid, whose expansion under the 2010 law has covered millions of low-income Americans—many in states run by GOP governors.

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Back To The Future: Insurance Pools For High-Risk Patients Could Be Revived

It wasn’t so long ago that health insurance horror stories fueled discussions around the family dinner table and the national debate over health care reform.

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Paul Ryan’s Plan to Change Medicare Looks A Lot Like Obamacare

President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan agree that repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with some other health insurance system is a top priority.

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Rebates to Pharmacy Benefit Managers Are a Hidden Contributor to High Drug Prices

In the furor over high drug prices, both Congress and the media have largely focused on the role played by drug companies such as Turing Pharmaceuticals, Valeant, and Mylan. Another contributor — pharmacy benefit managers and the rebates they get from drug companies — is only now getting the attention it deserves.

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Democrats Clinch A Supermajority In Both Houses of the California Legislature After Josh Newman Wins State Senate Seat

Democrat Josh Newman has defeated Assemblywoman Ling Ling Chang (R-Diamond Bar) to win the race for the 29th Senate District, giving Democrats in the Legislature a two-thirds majority in both houses.

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Elizabeth Warren Rips 21st Century Cures Bill and Vows to Fight It

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday railed against legislation that would ease standards for new drugs and medical devices, saying the bill had been “hijacked” by the pharmaceutical industry.

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New Quotit Mobile App Helps Brokers Find Right ACA Plans for Consumers

Quotit Corporation, the leading national provider of Internet sales and marketing solutions for the health insurance and employee benefits industry, has launched a new mobile quoting app, QuotitGO. QuotitGO gives brokers the ability to quote insurance options for consumers on the go, including real-time subsidy calculations, an important distinction between QuotitGO and other apps as over 85% of Americans qualified for subsidies in 2015 when enrolling in ACA marketplace plans.

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IRS Targeting Those Not On Obamacare

The IRS is plowing ahead with controversial plans to use its files to try to prod more people to sign up for Obamacare — but the tax agency has promised Congress it won’t break any privacy laws.

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Tom Price, Obamacare Critic, Is Trump’s Choice for Health Secretary

If President-elect Donald J. Trump wanted a cabinet secretary who could help him dismantle and replace President Obama’s health care law, he could not have found anyone more prepared than Representative Tom Price, who has been studying how to accomplish that goal for more than six years.

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California Braces For Medi-Cal’s Future Under Trump And The GOP

California grabbed the first opportunity to expand Medicaid and ran with it, helping cut the number of uninsured people in half in a few short years.

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