President Trump threatened to let Obamacare implode if a replacement plan wasn’t passed. One of the many talking points to this issue was that he expected there to be a number of counties across the country with no health insurance carrier options to choose from. At...
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D- WA), the ranking members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP), announced in a press release on August 22, 2017 that they would be holding hearings as soon as they were back in...
The IRS stated in a recent report to Congress that 4 million tax returns were filed for the 2016 calendar year that admitted to owing the individual mandate penalty under Obamacare despite the IRS’ announcement on February 15, 2017 that it would not reject any tax...
President Trump has been threatening to withhold CSR payments, or the cost-sharing reduction payments due to insurance carriers, because he thought Congress would be more willing to pass a replacement plan if Obamacare imploded and withholding what he called...
The Kaiser Family Foundation released results from a very interesting poll it conducted this month on the temperature of Americans and healthcare reform. The survey was carried out from August 1st through the 6th, among a random sample of 1,211 Americans over the age...
Recently we shared that the State of Alaska applied for and was granted permission to essentially become an insurance carrier and help offset the high cost of healthcare for residents that have one of thirty-three different enumerated medical conditions and to...
President Trump demanded it and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell requested it of his colleagues and both got their wishes today when the Senate voted 51:50, with the tie-breaking vote being cast by Vice President Pence, to begin discussions on what an Obamacare...
Last week, the CBO scored an Obamacare repeal only bill, and determined that this option faired worse than all other potential reform plans proposed by Republicans in both the House and Senate and would result in 32 million more Americans, or roughly 10% of the...
The Senate published more amendments to their Obamacare replacement plan – the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) – yesterday, July 20th, and later that day the CBO announced that it was only as good as their original draft, which still left 22 million more...
The Congressional Budget Office announced their score of the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act yesterday, July 19th, and it is now in last place on the leaderboard. Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, had dismissed the CBO’s published findings of the BCRA – the...
