Nearly 1 million Black American adults would become eligible for medical insurance if 12 holdout states expanded Medicaid eligibility under the ACA, according to the HHS report. Story continues below advertisement “There’s a clear policy choice that’s being made by those states that runs counter to the interests of a large number of people who…
The enrollment figure is the heart of a report released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The White House issued a statement from the president in advance, in which Biden said he was proud that the sign-ups are “the highest numbers ever produced in an open enrollment period.” Story continues below advertisement…
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Washington — President Biden said Thursday that a record 14.5 million Americans got private health insurance for this year under the Obama-era health law, thanks to help from his administration. “Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “We are making that right a reality…
The No Surprises Act, health care legislation targeted at preventing surprise medical bills, officially went into effect on Jan. 1, albeit with one major exclusion: ambulance bills. A 2021 survey found that ambulance bills account for 8% of all medical debt. A big reason why is because 51% of emergency and 39% of non-emergency ground…
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The Build Back Better Act, H.R. 5376, (BBBA), adopted by the House of Representatives on November 19, 2021 with the support of President Biden, includes a broad package of health, social, climate change and revenue provisions. The total package includes $1.7 trillion in spending, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which also projects that…
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Today almost every industry is facing a workforce shortage. But unlike restaurants and retail, most healthcare entities need to be staffed 24-7, 365 days a year. For healthcare frontline workers there has been little to no break for more than 18-months and making matters worse, they are now experiencing a compounded crisis exacerbated by high…
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WASHINGTON — Of all the “bitter disappointments” he had as president, Harry Truman once wrote, the “one that has troubled me most, in a personal way,” was the failure to enact a national program that would assure all Americans “a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.” More than 75 years after…
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At times, it seemed like the Affordable Care Act was on life support during Donald Trump’s four years in the White House. The federal health insurance program was saved from being repealed by the defection of three Republican senators in a dramatic 2017 vote. That same year, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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