Dental Coverage Deciphered, And The Latest On Sign-Up Deadlines
New Year's Day marked the halfway point to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act for coverage this year.And after a dismal start, things seem to be going a lot better on the...
View ArticleHealth Care Costs Grew More Slowly Than The Economy In 2012
Health care spending grew at a record slow pace for the fourth straight year in 2012, according to a new government report. But the federal officials who compiled the report disagree with their bosses...
View ArticleLegal Loopholes Leave Some Kids Without Dental Insurance
If you think buying health insurance under the Affordable Care Act has been complicated, just wait. Buying dental coverage on the health exchanges, it turns out, is even more confusing.Dental coverage...
View ArticleThe Healthy, Not The Young, May Determine Health Law's Fate
Now that the problems with the balky HealthCare.gov website are largely fixed, the Obama administration is finally feeling comfortable enough to launch some of the outreach it planned for last fall.Its...
View ArticleKey Senate Republicans Offer Their Plan To Replace Obamacare
Republicans have offered a wide array of proposals to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act since it became law in 2010. But few have come with the pedigree of the plan just unveiled by a trio...
View ArticleRep. Waxman Leaves Behind A Legacy Of Health Laws
California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman, one of the last remaining members of the huge post-Watergate class of 1974, is calling it quits at the end of this term.Most people who live outside his Los...
View ArticleAbortions Reportedly Drop To Lowest Rate Since 1970s
Abortions in the U.S. resumed their downward trend between 2008 and 2011, according to a new study. But its authors say the recent surge of state laws intended to restrict the procedure is likely not...
View ArticleHealth Law's Employer Mandate Hits Another Speed Bump
The Obama Administration is, again, delaying implementation of a part of the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide health insurance to their workers (or, potentially, face penalties)....
View ArticleAfter January Surge, 3.3 Million Have Enrolled In Obamacare
January was a miserable month for weather, but the wintry blasts in much of the country weren't enough to stop people from shopping for health insurance.More than 1.1 million people signed up for...
View ArticleFinessing Health Coverage: When To Buy Insurance For A New Baby
We're heading into the home stretch to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act this year. The open enrollment period ends March 31 for most people.But there are exceptions. And they are the...
View ArticleAs Deadline Nears, State Insurance Exchanges Still A Mixed Bag
With a bit more than a month left for people to sign up for health insurance plans set up under the Affordable Care Act, the federal website known as HealthCare.gov finally seems to be working smoothly...
View ArticleFDA To Increase Access To Generic Morning-After Pills
The Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow generic versions of the most popular form of emergency contraceptive pills to be sold over the counter, without age restrictions, after all.Last...
View ArticleAs Health Law Takes Hold, Rate Of Uninsured Falls
Since the Affordable Care Act kicked in fully, the percentage of Americans without health coverage has fallen to its lowest point in five years.In the last quarter of 2013, just before the federal...
View ArticleYoung People Lag Behind In Health Insurance Enrollment
With 20 days left for people to sign up for private health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the number of people who have completed that task rose to 4.2 million through the end of February, the...
View ArticleYou Might Pay A Lot More Than $95 For Skipping Health Insurance
2014 is the first year most Americans will have to either have health insurance or face a tax penalty.But most people who are aware of the penalty think it's pretty small, at least for this first year.
View ArticleHouse Passes Payment Fix For Medicare Docs, But At What Cost?
Bipartisan support dissolved this week for compromise legislation that would have fixed a longstanding problem with the way Medicare pays physicians.
View ArticleInsurance Chief Suggests Adding A New, Lower Level Of Health Plan
Rather than letting people keep their old health plans that don't comply with the new requirements of the Affordable Care Act, the head of the group that represents the nation's health insurance...
View ArticleFinal Call For Questions On Health Insurance As Deadline Looms
There's just one week left for most people to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. And as people race to meet the deadline, they still have questions about the law, and the sign-up...
View ArticleMost People Don't Know The Health Insurance Deadline Looms
Next week is the last chance for most people without insurance to sign up for individual health coverage for the remainder of 2014.Yet according to the latest monthly tracking poll from the Kaiser...
View ArticleThat Health Insurance Deadline Now Comes With Wiggle Room
We're just five days away from the March 31 deadline to sign up for individual health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. For weeks, administration officials, including the president, have...
View ArticleObamacare's National Enrollment Looks OK, But States Matter More
With this year's deadline to register for individual health insurance just a weekend away, much attention is being lavished on two numbers — the 6 million Americans who have signed up so far, and the...
View ArticleGlitches Return To HealthCare.Gov As Enrollment Clock Expires
The last day of sign-ups for health insurance on the HealthCare.gov website is turning out to have a lot in common with the first: lots of computer problems.But there are some big differences, too.
View ArticleLessons Learned For 2015 From This Year's Obamacare Sign-Ups
President Obama was thrilled last week when he was able to announce that more than 7 million people have signed up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act."This law is doing what it's supposed to...
View ArticleIs Obamacare A Success? We Might Not Know For A While
After months of focusing on how many people have or haven't signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, we now have a rough total (7.5 million), and everyone's keen to get to the...
View ArticleGOP Strategy To Run Against Health Law Hits Snags
Last year, the Republican playbook for keeping control of the House of Representatives in 2014 and winning the Senate consisted of a fairly simple strategy: Run against Obamacare.But now that the 2014...
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