Affordable Care Act

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Health & Safety

Open Enrollment Is Here: 6 Tips For Choosing A Health Insurance Plan

6:22pm November 01, 2019

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

If you're not getting health insurance from your employer, you can still get covered. You can shop for options through HealthCare.gov or your state's marketplace. Here's how to pick a plan.

For the third year in a row, the percentage of companies that offer high-deductible plans as the sole health insurance option will decline in 2020, according to a survey of large employers by the National Business Group on Health.

Firms Seeking Top Workers Find They Can't Offer Only High-Deductible Health Plans

4:48pm October 29, 2019

by Michelle Andrews

Big firms are again offering more generous health plans alongside or instead of policies with sky-high deductibles. Why? They need to do so to stay competitive and recruit top talent.

President Trump talked to seniors about health care in central Florida in early October. "We eliminated Obamacare's horrible, horrible, very expensive and very unfair, unpopular individual mandate," Trump told the crowd.

Health & Safety

Trump Is Trying Hard To Thwart Obamacare. How's That Going?

4:30pm October 14, 2019

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

Though polls show Affordable Care Act protections remain popular in the U.S., President Trump still threatens to drastically change the law if he can't repeal it. Here are five changes he's made.

Queue Listen Now

The latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, Texas v. Azar, was argued in July in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney Robert Henneke, representing the plaintiffs, spoke outside the courthouse on July 9.

Health & Safety

Heads Up: A Ruling On The Latest Challenge To The Affordable Care Act Is Coming

8:00am October 12, 2019

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The health law again faces possible legal evisceration with a court ruling in Texas v. Azar anticipated this fall. Here's what it's about and what's stake.

Missouri resident Patricia Powers had no health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago; she and her disabled husband were struggling to get by on, at most, $1,500 a month. If they'd lived across the river in Illinois, she'd have bee

State Border Splits Neighbors Into Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

9:11am October 01, 2019

by Laura Ungar

On the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, many families struggling financially can get health care, thanks to Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, their neighbors on the Missouri side don't qualify.

President Trump talked about expanding health coverage options for small businesses in a Rose Garden gathering at the White House in June.

What Would Trumpcare Look Like? Follow GOP's 'Choice And Competition' Clues

4:29pm September 03, 2019

by Julie Appleby

President Trump promises he has a "phenomenal" health plan if the ACA is overturned in court. Here's a glimpse, according to analysts and his advisers, of what might be included in a GOP health plan.

Politics & Government

Fact Check: Dan McCready Weighs In On Rival Dan Bishop's Health Care Bill

8:04am August 27, 2019

by Paul Specht, Politifact NC

The "Cadillac tax," an enacted but not yet implemented part of the Affordable Care Act, is a 40% tax on the most generous employer-provided health insurance plans — those that cost more than $11,200 per year for an individual policy or $30,150 for famil

'Cadillac Tax' On Generous Health Plans May Be Headed For Repeal

3:51pm August 14, 2019

by Julie Rovner

The tax on an employer's generous health plan — originally envisioned as a way to get patients to avoid unneeded care — has never been implemented. Now Congress is considering a bipartisan repeal.

Health & Safety

NC's Biggest Health Insurer Seeks To Cut Rates

5:21pm July 31, 2019

by Paul Garber

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking to lower its rates for health insurance.

"As deductibles rise, patients have the right to know the price of health care services so they can shop around for the best deal," says Seema Verma, who heads the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and announced the Trump administration's plan this

Health & Safety

Trump Team's Bid To Make Hospital Costs More Transparent Is Data-Heavy

5:00am July 31, 2019

by Julie Appleby

The administration's rules would require hospitals to provide far more detail about the actual prices they charge insurers for medical care. Would patients welcome the data, or feel overwhelmed?