New California Bill Would Impose Flat Tax on Managed Care Plans

On Thursday, Assembly member Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) introduced a bill (ABX2-4) that would impose a flat tax on all California managed care plans in an effort to retain about $1 billion in federal matching funds, the Sacramento Bee's "Capitol Alert" reports.

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Cost of Covering New People Under ACA Significantly Higher than Expected

The cost of covering people who qualified for Medicaid as part of the federal health law was significantly higher than expected in 2014, federal actuaries said Friday.

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GOP Planning to Use Reconciliation ‘to go after ObamaCare’

A top House Republican on Friday vowed to keep fighting to repeal ObamaCare through budget reconciliation even as the tactic is losing support from some within the GOP.

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Obama Nominates Former UnitedHealth Exec Slavitt to Run Medicare and Medicaid

WASHINGTON – President Obama has nominated former UnitedHealth Group executive Andy Slavitt to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Slavitt, whose nomination is subject to Senate approval, has been working as acting administrator of the government health insurance ­programs since February. He came to the national stage in 2013 while helping fix ...

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Health Law’s Contraceptive Rule Eased for Business With Religious Objections

The Obama administration issued new rules on Friday that allow closely held for-profit corporations like Hobby Lobby Stores to opt out of providing women with insurance coverage for contraceptives if the companies have religious objections.

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Higher Costs for Obamacare’s New Medicaid Patients

Those new checkups are forcing the government to write bigger checks—at least for now.

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