400,000 Immigrants Lose Obamacare Coverage

New government procedures have caused more than 400,000 immigrants to lose healthcare coverage they received under Obamacare this year, according to the Associated Press. The change in procedure shortens the timeframe during which foreign-born citizens can resolve eligibility issues, which has caused 423,000 people to lose their state-sponsored benefits. The healthcare law provides a 95-day ...

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CMS: California Has Highest Number of ACA Exchange Enrollees

California had the most health insurance exchange enrollees of any state, with about 1.4 million enrollees as of June 30, according to new federal data, The Hill reports (Sullivan, The Hill, 9/8). Details of Exchange Enrollees Overall, the data show about 9.9 million U.S. residents had selected and paid for health coverage through the federal ...

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Obama Administration Likely to Appeal Preliminary ACA Ruling

­ The White House isn’t likely to wait long to challenge Wednesday’s ruling allowing House Republicans to sue the Obama administration for spending federal funds on the Affordable Care Act‘s cost-sharing assistance. The administration is expected to seek what’s called an interlocutory appeal, which would allow a higher court to consider the issue of whether ...

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What the Anthem-Cigna Mega-Merger Could Mean for California

By sheer number of covered lives, Kaiser Permanente has been California’s largest health insurer for decades. But if Anthem gets its way — no longer. The Indianapolis-based insurer is currently the second-largest health insurer in the Golden State, and one of the three largest health insurers in the nation. Its planned mega-merger with Cigna is ...

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Health Insurance Signups Near 10 Million in Midyear Report

About 9.9 million people have signed up and paid for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law, the administration said Tuesday, a slight dip from a previous count but on track toward the administration’s year-end goal of 9.1 million. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that 84 percent of those, ...

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Consumers With COBRA Coverage Should Weigh Moving To Health Law Plans

As the open enrollment season for employer-sponsored health insurance gets underway this fall, experts say there’s one group that should definitely consider changing plans: people who have coverage through their former employer under the federal law known as COBRA. COBRA allows people who leave their jobs to keep their job-based group coverage for 18 months, ...

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