Timeline: Despite GOP鈥檚 Failure To Repeal Obamacare, The ACA Has Changed
A look at the most consequential events that have reshaped the federal health law since President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
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Clash Over Abortion Hobbles A Health Bill. Again. Here鈥檚 How.
As Congress considers a bipartisan bill to help hold down premium prices on the health law鈥檚 marketplaces, a long-standing fight over abortion reappears.
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Congress Races The Clock In Quest To Bring Stability To Individual Insurance Market
Bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill seek to help keep premium prices from rising out of control and undermining the policies available to people who don鈥檛 get insurance through work.
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Bipartisan Senate Budget Deal Boosts Health Programs
The agreement would add $2 billion to the National Institutes of Health and fund community health centers around the country. But it does not include provisions to help stabilize the federal health law鈥檚 marketplaces.
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CHIP Renewed For Six Years As Congress Votes To Reopen Federal Government
Funding for CHIP technically expired Oct. 1. Although both Democrats and Republicans said they wanted to continue the program, they could not agree on how to fund it.
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In Trump鈥檚 First Year, Anti-Abortion Forces Make Strides Despite Setbacks
As a candidate, the president promised a ban on abortions that take place after 20 weeks and federal funding to Planned Parenthood, but Congress has not obliged. Still, other anti-abortion policy goals have been realized.
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Children鈥檚 Insurance, Other Health Programs Funded 鈥 For Now 鈥 In Bill
In a short-term spending bill, Congress extends money to the Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program through March.
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Despite Compressed Sign-Up Period, ACA Enrollment Nearly Matches Last Year鈥檚
HHS announces that 8.8 million people signed up for coverage through the federal insurance marketplace.
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Why Do People Hate Obamacare, Anyway?
It鈥檚 not just ideology; a lot of people don鈥檛 understand what the law does or how it works.
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Sen. Collins鈥 Strategy To Stabilize Insurance Market Raises Doubts Among Analysts
Even if the Republican from Maine can get her party to go along, her suggestions to bolster the individual insurance market may be too little, too late.
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Congress Isn鈥檛 Really Done With Health Care 鈥 Just Look At What鈥檚 In The Tax Bills
Even though congressional Republicans set aside their Obamacare repeal-and-replace efforts this year, here are five major health policy changes that could become law as part of the pending House and Senate proposals.
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Election Night Surprise: Health Care Galvanizes Voters
In Maine and Virginia, health care issues played on voters鈥 minds.
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House Tax Bill Would Scrap Deduction For Medical Expenses
About 9 million people claimed about $87 billion in medical deductions in 2015.
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Enrollment 2018
5 Things To Know About ACA At Year 5
This year鈥檚 Obamacare open enrollment will be marked by a number of changes. KHN helps you navigate them.聽
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2 Senators Reach Deal On A Health Law Fix, But Bringing Congress Along Is Tricky
The bipartisan accord would restore funding for the cost-sharing reductions that President Donald Trump ended last week and would give states more flexibility to devise alternatives for providing and subsidizing health care.
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Stunner On Birth Control: Trump’s Moral Exemption Is Geared Toward Just 2 Groups
Trump administration鈥檚 rule unveiled last week to allow some employers with 鈥渟incerely held moral convictions鈥 to bypass a health law requirement to provide no-cost contraceptives to women would exempt at least two anti-abortion groups: the March for Life and Real Alternatives.
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Repeal & Replace Watch
Trump Acting Solo: What You Need To Know About Changes To The Health Law
A quick guide to revisions to the cost-sharing subsidies for lower-income marketplace customers and the proposal to add different plans to the market.
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Overlooked By ACA: Many People Paying Full Price For Insurance 鈥楪etting Slammed鈥
For several million consumers who buy their own insurance but earn too much to qualify for subsidies, the ever-growing price of premiums takes a big toll.
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Latest Scandal Too Much For HHS Secretary Tom Price. He’s Out.
Tom Price resigned from running the Department of Health and Human Services after a series of news stories detailing how he tallied more than $400,000 in private plane travel paid for by taxpayers.聽
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Repeal & Replace Watch
The GOP Repeal Bill Is Imploding. Here Are 5 Things Left Hanging On Obamacare.
Even though the Affordable Care Act has dodged another legislative bullet, it still faces challenges.
By Julie Rovner
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