Tag: Affordable Care Act
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judges ruling that the Obama health law is unconstitutional has landed like a stink bomb among Republicans, whove seen the politics of health care flip as Americans increasingly value the…
Kansas has the shameful honor of being part of a successful lawsuit that will rob up to 17 million Americans of their only viable course to health insurance. Why would we want to sign on…
One of the clear messages of the midterm elections was the enthusiasm Americans have for the Affordable Care Act. Now that more people have better access to individual health insurance, they want to keep it.…
About 350 area residents are expected to seek help getting health insurance this year, creating a bigger burden on the reduced number of Navigators who provide that help. Reduced federal funding for the Affordable Care…
WASHINGTON The Trump administration Monday took new steps to broaden the availability of health plans that dont have to cover patients pre-existing medical conditions, signaling that the federal government would support state proposals to…
For six years now, the issue of whether to expand Medicaid, the state/federal health insurance program for low-income citizens, has surfaced every legislative session in Kansas only to suffer defeat. In 2017, backers were hopeful…
Perhaps the events of the past two weeks the death of John McCain, Bob Woodwards new book exposing the inter-workings of the White House and the New York Times publication of an unsigned Op-Ed…
FORT WORTH, Texas A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday rejected a request from a group of Republican-led states to suspend the Affordable Care Act, but he extensively quizzed attorneys involved in the latest…
A top executive for Blue Cross Blue Shield warned Americans to expect their health insurance premiums to significantly increase in 2019 due to a decision Saturday by the Trump administration to cease supplementing health insurers…
Kansas had its own Moral Monday, but it was on Tuesday. In Georgia, protestors flooded the state capitol Monday to protest the Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid guidelines as provided in the Affordable Care Act.…
