By Julie Rovner – A brief, partial shutdown of the federal government ended Monday, as the Senate and House approved legislation that would keep federal dollars flowing until Feb. 8, as well as fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program for the next six years.
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By Phil Galewitz – If President Donald Trump were to follow through on his threats to cut federal cost-sharing subsidies, health insurance premiums for silver…
By David Blumenthal MD & Sara R. Collins – The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always needed fixing. Now that the Congress has tried and failed to repeal and replace it, the time for repair seems at hand.
By Sara R. Collins & David Blumenthal, MD – Negative headlines in the past few weeks seem to suggest deep trouble for the ACA marketplaces. Several insurance plans have requested double-digit premium increases for 2017.
By Chad Terhune – In another sign of growing frustration with rising health costs, aerospace giant Boeing Co. has agreed to contract directly for employee benefits with a major health system in Southern California, bypassing the conventional insurance model.
By Sara R. Collins & David Blumenthal MD – New estimates released this week by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) show that annual growth in U.S. health care spending increased to 5.3 percent in 2014, up from 2.9 percent in 2013, after five consecutive years of historically low growth.
By Michelle Andrews – In addition to treating what ails you, a number of health care systems aim to sell you a health insurance plan to pay for it. With some of the most competitively priced policies on the marketplaces, “provider-led” plans can be popular with consumers.
By Justin Giovannelli, JoAnn Volk, Kevin Lucia, Ashley Williams & Kayla Connor – The promise of the Affordable Care Act was not just to broaden access to health insurance, but also to enable more Americans to have coverage they could count on if they became sick.