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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