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Compliance

This section focuses on health care compliance and regulations – both national and state – including the ACA. It includes changes in health care law, regulation, and court decisions and their impact on health insurance professionals, employers, and individuals.

Republican Tax Bill in Final Sprint Across Finish Line

The day after suffering a political blow in the Alabama special Senate election, congressional Republicans sped forward with the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades, announcing an agreement on a final bill that would cut taxes for businesses and individuals and signal the party’s first major legislative achievement since assuming political control this year.

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House GOP Lawmakers Look to Delay Cadillac Tax, Other ACA Taxes

The Affordable Care Act taxes are all on the U.S. House of Representatives' chopping block.

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Dems Call for Trump Officials to Extend ObamaCare Deadline

Two top Senate Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to extend ObamaCare’s sign-up period, arguing it is being cut off too soon this year before people have time to enroll.

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Collins Confident Health Subsidies Will Be In Spending Bill

Funding for key ObamaCare insurer subsidies is likely to be included in the upcoming government funding bill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday.

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Signups for 2018 Exchange Coverage Hit 4.7 Million in First Six Weeks

Nearly 4.7 million people signed up for an insurance plan through HealthCare.gov in the first six weeks of the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment this year. 

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Experts Tell Congress How To Cut Drug Prices. We Give You Some Odds.

The nation’s most influential science advisory group was set to tell Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. pharmaceutical market is not sustainable and needs to change.

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Universal Coverage Committee Looks To Other States Single Payer Plans For Lessons

California lawmakers pushing for universal health care are hoping to draw on the experiences of other states and cities that have tried similar models.

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Desperate For Coverage: Are Short-Term Plans Better Than None At All?

When one of Cindy Holtzman’s clients told the Woodstock, Ga., broker he was considering dropping his Affordable Care Act plan because next year’s cost approached $23,000 for his family of four, she suggested a new option: a back-to-back set of four, 90-day short-term plans, which would effectively give them a modicum of medical coverage for 2018.

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An Obamacare Surprise in the Mail: New Insurers and New Costs

Meg and Robert Holub were surprised to receive a letter last week welcoming them to a new health insurance plan and telling them to pay $3,483 by Jan. 8.

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Why A Pill That’s 4 Cents In Tanzania Costs Up to $400 In The U.S.

Two pills to wipe out hookworm could cost you 4 cents. Or $400. It just depends where you live. The 4 cents is in Tanzania. That'll cover the two pills it takes to knock out the intestinal parasite. But in the United States, where hookworm has re-emerged, the price for two 200 mg tablets of albendazole can cost as much as $400.

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