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Margarita Mills (left), an insurance agent from Sunshine Life and Health Advisors, helped Daniela Morales shop for an Affordable Care Act health plan at the Mall of the Americas in Miami last month.

ACA Navigators Are Busy With Sign-Ups, Despite Federal Cuts To Outreach

5:00am December 05, 2017

by Michelle Andrews

With enrollment funding tight, health plan navigators and assisters are getting creative about getting the word out and signing people up for Affordable Care Act plans.

President Trump at a Senate GOP lunch with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Tuesday, where he talked with several holdouts on the tax bill about measures to bring them on board.

Senate Tax Bill Gaining Momentum With Some GOP Holdouts

7:57pm November 28, 2017

by Kelsey Snell

Republican leaders are working to update their long-promised tax overhaul legislation to satisfy enough senators to allow a vote on the legislation as early as this week.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., at a news conference on Tuesday where they announced that the individual mandate to have health insurance would be repealed in the Senate GOP tax bill.

Republican Senators Add Repeal Of Individual Health Care Mandate To Tax Bill

5:59pm November 14, 2017

by Kelsey Snell

Republican leaders expressed confidence that the measure could pass the Senate. It is likely to face even fewer hurdles in the House, as the GOP aims to pass a tax bill by Christmas.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., listen to debate on tax reform on Wednesday.

CBO: Repealing Health Coverage Mandate Would Save $338 Billion

9:50pm November 08, 2017

by Alison Kodjak

Republicans have been toying with repealing the Affordable Care Act insurance mandate in their tax bill. The Congressional Budget Office says that would save money but make coverage much more costly.

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander chairs the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee; Sen. Patty Murray is the committee's ranking Democrat.

5 Controversial Ideas For Shoring Up Health Insurance Markets

4:38pm August 30, 2017

by Julie Rovner

Lawmakers looking to stabilize the health insurance exchanges may consider a number of proposals — including pushing young adults off a parent's plan or letting people buy into Medicare and Medicaid.

Steve Daines of Montana (right) talks with fellow Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts in a White House meeting in June on the GOP health care strategy, which would include deep cuts to Medicaid. Montana insurers say the plan worries them.

Montana Insurers Say Medicaid Cuts Would Drive Up Cost Of Private Health Plans

6:30pm July 07, 2017

by Eric Whitney

Montana's three main health insurance firms say the Republican Senate's proposed cuts to Medicaid, and any plan to repeal the individual mandate, could drive up health costs for everyone.

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Carl Goulden, of Littlestown Pa., developed hepatitis B 10 years ago. Soon his health insurance premiums soared beyond a price he and his wife could afford.

U.S. Health Care Wrestles With The 'Pre-Existing Condition'

8:04am April 15, 2017

by Elana Gordon

Insurers and politicians struggle constantly to thread the needle between making sure people have good health insurance and figuring out who should pay, especially for those who need a lot of care.

To keep health insurance solvent, the pool of covered people needs to include the well and the sick.

GOP Health Insurance Alternatives May Wind Up Using Penalties Like The Mandate

11:32am November 15, 2016

by Michelle Andrews

Republicans dislike the health law's requirement to have insurance or pay a fine. But if they want to keep the ban on preexisting conditions, they need to find a way to make customers purchase a plan.

One person who got a letter canceling his health insurance was Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo. He holds up the letter during a congressional hearing Wednesday on insurance problems. He says his family chose to buy private insurance rather than use the congress

Notices Canceling Health Insurance Leave Many On Edge

6:00pm October 30, 2013

by John Ydstie

President Obama repeatedly said that anyone who likes their current health insurance policy would be able to keep it. But insurers have sent hundreds of thousands of cancellation notices to people who buy their own coverage — and some of them face significantly higher costs to get new policies under the Affordable Care Act.

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