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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.

Obamacare Is Suddenly In Grave Dangers. Here’s Why

A last-ditch Republican effort to repeal Obamacare picked up steam on Monday as a key senator opened the door to supporting the bill, which is popularly known as Graham-Cassidy.

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Senate Committee Closer to Bipartisan ACA Fix, Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson Makes a Promise

Members of a Senate committee are moving closer to creating bipartisan legislation to stabilize the individual insurance markets, but they’re mostly split along party lines over the finer points—including how long the stabilization measures should be in place.

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Medicare for All or State Control: Health Care Plans Go to Extremes

In one Senate office building, some of the leading lights of the Democratic Party gathered Wednesday to embrace what was once a proposal only of the far left: a huge expansion of Medicare, large enough to open the popular, government-run health program to all Americans.

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CBO: ObamaCare Uncertainty Will Lead to 15 Percent Hike in ACA Exchange Premiums

Premiums for ObamaCare's benchmark silver plans will increase by an average of 15 percent in 2018, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in a new report released Thursday.

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Employer Groups Targeting a Number of Healthcare Reforms in Congress

Employer associations are regrouping after Congress failed to repeal and replace major elements of the Affordable Care Act this summer, and they have a number of priorities on their agenda.

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Dems Call for Action Against Cassidy-Graham ObamaCare Repeal

Democratic senators are reigniting their calls to fight against another Republican health-care push that aims to repeal and replace ObamaCare after reports surfaced that President Trump and GOP leaders are working to garner support for legislation introduced by Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

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Premiums for Employer-Sponsored Family Health Coverage Rise Slowly for Sixth Straight Year, Up 3% but Averaging $18,764 in 2017

Annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 3 percent to $18,764 this year, continuing a six-year run of relatively modest increases, according to the benchmark Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2017 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today.

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HHS Slashes Funding to Groups Helping ACA Consumers Enroll By Up to 92 Percent

Health and Human Services officials have informed grass-roots groups that assist with enrollment under the Affordable Care Act that their funding will be reduced by as much as 92 percent, a move that could upend outreach efforts across the country.

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State Lawmakers Tackle Public Smoking And Lead Poisoning, But Punt On Single-Payer

California lawmakers approved several key health care proposals — and stalled on others — in their mad dash toward last Friday’s do-or-die legislative deadline.

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Pharma Keeps Ignoring Its Price Problem

Want to get pharma companies up in arms? Tell them it doesn't cost that much to get a cancer drug to market.

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