Health News
- Washington Post Columnist Looks At Data, Talks To Experts And Concludes Obamacare Is Working, At Less Cost Than Expected
The federal health-reform law "has accomplished its goal of expanding coverage ? at a significantly lower cost than expected," columnist Ruth Marcus writes for The Washington Post "after talking to numerous health-care experts and examining the data."...
- How Obamacare Changes Health-insurance System, Medicaid
Jan. 1 was the first effective day of the new health-insurance system created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Sarah Kiliff of The Washington Post took the opportunity to catalog just how sweeping the reform law is. First, it means...
- Cbo Estimates Court Ruling Will Mean 3 Million Fewer People Than Predicted Will Get Insurance, Saving Federal Government $84 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 3 million fewer people will get health insurance than expected before the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The CBO forecasts that will reduce the law's estimated...
- Clearing Up The Facts
There has been a lot of confusion about some recent notices to consumers from insurance companies that sell coverage in the individual insurance market, and I?d like to clear up the facts. Today, more than 3 out of every 4 Americans get insurance from...
- Florida Judge Rules Against Affordable Care Act
The Social Security Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Minimum Wage Act were all landmark laws that changed our country for the better. They secured essential freedoms for all Americans and improved our quality of life. All were...
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Reform law 'quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve,' McClatchy Newspapers reporter writes
The federal health-reform law is still controversial and still facing a legal challenge, but "is quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve," Washington correspondent Tony Pugh reported for McClatchy Newspapers on the occasion of the law's fifth anniversary. (The Lexington Herald-Leader is a McClatchy paper.)
"The nation?s uninsured rate has plummeted as more Americans enroll in Medicaid or in federal and state marketplace coverage," Pugh notes. "The law?s consumer protections and insurance-benefit requirements have improved the quality of coverage for millions of people who get health insurance outside the workplace. Premiums for marketplace health insurance have largely been reasonable and have increased only moderately thus far. Long-term cost estimates for providing coverage under the law have been falling."
Howver, Pugh writes, "The law may never overcome the bitter politics that surrounded its enactment and that partly define its legacy. Long viewed as a government overreach, the health-care law has been problematic for those who want the private insurance market to dictate who gets health insurance and what it should cost. . . . Moreover, the law?s requirement that most Americans have health insurance is seen as an infringement on individual freedom. The Supreme Court ruled in June 2012 that the so-called individual mandate didn?t violate the Constitution."
The White House issued a state-specific list of the law's benefits. For Kentucky's, click here.
"The nation?s uninsured rate has plummeted as more Americans enroll in Medicaid or in federal and state marketplace coverage," Pugh notes. "The law?s consumer protections and insurance-benefit requirements have improved the quality of coverage for millions of people who get health insurance outside the workplace. Premiums for marketplace health insurance have largely been reasonable and have increased only moderately thus far. Long-term cost estimates for providing coverage under the law have been falling."
Howver, Pugh writes, "The law may never overcome the bitter politics that surrounded its enactment and that partly define its legacy. Long viewed as a government overreach, the health-care law has been problematic for those who want the private insurance market to dictate who gets health insurance and what it should cost. . . . Moreover, the law?s requirement that most Americans have health insurance is seen as an infringement on individual freedom. The Supreme Court ruled in June 2012 that the so-called individual mandate didn?t violate the Constitution."
The White House issued a state-specific list of the law's benefits. For Kentucky's, click here.
- Washington Post Columnist Looks At Data, Talks To Experts And Concludes Obamacare Is Working, At Less Cost Than Expected
The federal health-reform law "has accomplished its goal of expanding coverage ? at a significantly lower cost than expected," columnist Ruth Marcus writes for The Washington Post "after talking to numerous health-care experts and examining the data."...
- How Obamacare Changes Health-insurance System, Medicaid
Jan. 1 was the first effective day of the new health-insurance system created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Sarah Kiliff of The Washington Post took the opportunity to catalog just how sweeping the reform law is. First, it means...
- Cbo Estimates Court Ruling Will Mean 3 Million Fewer People Than Predicted Will Get Insurance, Saving Federal Government $84 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 3 million fewer people will get health insurance than expected before the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The CBO forecasts that will reduce the law's estimated...
- Clearing Up The Facts
There has been a lot of confusion about some recent notices to consumers from insurance companies that sell coverage in the individual insurance market, and I?d like to clear up the facts. Today, more than 3 out of every 4 Americans get insurance from...
- Florida Judge Rules Against Affordable Care Act
The Social Security Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Minimum Wage Act were all landmark laws that changed our country for the better. They secured essential freedoms for all Americans and improved our quality of life. All were...