For months, President Trump has been threatening to cancel so-called called “cost-sharing reduction” payments, or CSRs. This is apparently part of his brazen strategy to “implode” health insurance marketplaces and force Democrats to negotiate about the Affordable Care Act’s… Read more.
08.16.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Congress has left D.C. for the summer without passing legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or cut Medicaid. Leadership and rank-and-file representatives and senators on both sides of the aisle appear to… Read more.
08.04.2017 /
Jane Sheehan,
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Insights Blog
Coming off the Senate failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last week, President Trump has threatened an immediate cutoff of payments to insurance companies that support the reductions in the amount lower-income… Read more.
08.03.2017 /
Insights Blog
We always believed in our hearts that it would not be possible for Congress to pass repeal—that we could stop these harmful efforts because too many people rely on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid… Read more.
07.28.2017 /
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Insights Blog
Yesterday, two major proposals that would have rolled back the Affordable Care Act’s progress in expanding coverage were defeated by bipartisan majorities. Senate leadership is now pulling together a so-called “skinny” bill, which they hope will… Read more.
07.27.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Here’s where things stand on Republicans’ reckless quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It’s been a dramatic 24 hours and we’re all bleary-eyed today after tracking the Senate’s activity last night. What’s important… Read more.
07.26.2017 /
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Insights Blog
Most analyses of Senate health care repeal bills have rightly focused on the damage those bills would cause for people’s coverage and care, consumer protections, and state budgets. However, an additional concern is that… Read more.
07.25.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
The latest version of the Senate health bill, as with every version before it, ends the Medicaid expansion funding that has enabled more than 11 million people to get health coverage. Several Republican senators from Medicaid… Read more.
07.21.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
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Insights Blog
On July 20, CBO scored the Senate’s third version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). The third time is not a charm. This iteration of the Senate bill would still gut the core… Read more.
07.20.2017 /
Insights Blog
Late last night, Senate Majority Leader McConnell announced that he will not hold a vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the bill that repeals and replaces the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Instead,… Read more.
07.19.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
[Update 7/20] Leader McConnell is still pushing for a vote next week to repeal the ACA and destroy Medicaid, but now the Senate is back focusing on an altered version of BCRA, which received a CBO score… Read more.
07.19.2017 /
Jane Sheehan,
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Insights Blog
According to media accounts, Republican senators met with President Donald Trump today to discuss efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The meeting featured Senator Cruz explaining his amendment to the recently-abandoned Senate… Read more.
07.19.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
The Senate health bill ends the Medicaid expansion for adults starting in 2021, leaving 11 million residents across 31 states without health care. The bill allows people with incomes below poverty to buy coverage… Read more.
07.15.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Lydia Mitts,
Andrea Callow,
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Insights Blog
A few days ago, we wrote about the Cruz Amendment: “If you create one pool for healthy people and one pool that only covers sick people—those with pre-existing conditions—you are thrusting sick people into a… Read more.
07.14.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
Just as with earlier versions, the latest iteration of the Senate's Affordable Care Act repeal bill would devastate insurance coverage, gut the Medicaid program, and dramatically increase deductibles and out of pocket costs. The… Read more.
07.14.2017 /
Eliot Fishman,
Dee Mahan,
Lydia Mitts,
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Insights Blog
ACA opponents often complain about deductibles in the law’s health insurance marketplaces. But under the Senate health care repeal bill, deductibles would skyrocket for most marketplace enrollees. Our analysis of HHS data shows that,… Read more.
07.12.2017 /
Stan Dorn,
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Insights Blog
