This year, several states passed budgets that expand oral health coverage for adults in Medicaid. Expanding this coverage goes a long way to improving overall health, making oral health care more accessible and affordable, and reducing… Read more.
Last night, Maine voters took control at the ballot box to expand health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. The decisive win--with nearly 60 percent of the vote-- shows the popular… Read more.
UPDATE 12/1: The Senate passed its tax bill that would increase the federal deficit by more than $1 trillion and repeal the individual mandate, which would kick 13 million people off of their coverage. Mostly… Read more.
UPDATE 11/3: The House of Representatives passed the CHIP bill. While Democrats and Republicans agree that funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) should be extended for five years, the House Republicans recently released a partisan… Read more.
A bipartisan bill that seeks to stabilize health insurance markets got some welcome news from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week. Sponsored by Senators Alexander (R-TN), Murray (D-WA), and 22 other senators evenly… Read more.
Last week, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander and Democrat Sen. Patty Murray introduced new legislation that represents a constructive, bipartisan step toward strengthening health care. The bill is a bipartisan package of so-called “stabilization" measures to support… Read more.
A critical test of the popularity of the Affordable Care Act will take place in less than two weeks. On Nov. 7, voters in Maine will cast a vote on Question 2, a ballot… Read more.
Yesterday, President Trump and Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan announced the “immediate” end of payments to fund cost-sharing reductions (CSRs). Coming three weeks before open enrollment, this is the most malicious and harmful attack… Read more.
President Trump’s Executive Order accomplishes nothing on its own. However, it asks HHS and the Department of Labor to take the Trump Administration’s ACA sabotage campaign to new heights. With less than three weeks… Read more.
This blog post originally appeared in The Hill. After a decade of fruitlessly besieging the city of Troy, the Greeks seemed to sail away for home, leaving behind a gift. “What lovely sculpture,” exclaimed the… Read more.
The Trump administration announced it will stop making cost sharing reduction payments. Without these payments, a number of insurers have said they will have to leave marketplaces or raise their rates by another 20 percent. In… Read more.
At least for the next few months, Congress has shelved its attempts to take health insurance away from tens of millions of people through severe and partisan cuts to the ACA and Medicaid. This… Read more.
Today’s headlines were about Congress turning its attention to tax reform, but there’s still some critical health care business to take care of. Congress needs to extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program… Read more.
Update 9/25/17: The new Congressional Budget Office report released late Monday confirms that Graham-Cassidy will take health care from millions of people and take a trillion dollars out of Medicaid. Early on the morning of… Read more.
Update 9/21: The Senate could vote next week on Graham-Cassidy. Learn what you can do to stop it. The latest Republican repeal and replace plan may be the last, which is why the plan authored by… Read more.
Following the failed effort in the Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in early September, members on both sides of the aisle came together to find bipartisan solutions to the most pressing challenge facing… Read more.