While speaking at forum for AARP in Iowa this weekend, Joe Biden revealed his plan for healthcare, which would be based on Obamacare. At one point, he told the crowd with a straight face, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
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Biden Thinks It’s ‘a Sin’ to Replace Obamacare With Medicare For All
2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has stuck to his guns on Obamacare even though his rivals have jumped on the Medicare For All bandwagon.
Biden stressed to CNN that he finds it “a sin” to replace Obamacare with Medicare For All.
Joe Biden Wants to Bring Back the Individual Mandate in Obamacare
During a recent interview on CNN, Joe Biden revealed that he wants to reinstate the individual mandate in Obamacare, the least popular aspect of the law that eviscerated the Democratic party during Obama’s presidency.
Federal Judge kills Obamacare
Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, just killed Obamacare.
If the ruling holds up on appeal, Obamacare is dead. As a doorknob. Not just the mandate or some other particular provisions.
He killed the WHOLE THING.
Six States Win $839 Million Judgment in Obamacare Lawsuit
Despite the fact Obamacare hasn’t been “repealed and replaced” as promised by GOP members of the Congress, six states have just won a multi-state lawsuit against the tax policies implemented by Obamacare.
More Insurers Add Obamacare for 2019 at the Cost of Higher Prices
Research from Avalere Health, a healthcare consulting firm, shows that more insurance companies are adding Obamacare as an option, but in many cases, that’s going to mean higher premiums for some. From the report:
These findings are based on an Avalere analysis of the complete 2019 individual market proposed rate filings released...
New Trump Admin Rule Gives Small Businesses Easier Access to Heath Insurance
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta announced a new rule that will help small businesses and self-employed individuals purchase health insurance. From The Wall Street Journal:
The rule makes it far easier for small businesses and self-employed individuals to band together and obtain “association health...
DOJ won’t defend Obamacare mandate – unlike Obama-Holder shift on DOMA there’s a reasonable legal basis
In February 2011, the Obama/Holder DOJ abruptly announced it would refuse to continue defending the Defense of Marriage Act after years of arguing in Court that DOMA was constitutional.
In defending DOMA for years, the DOJ was upholding an important principle, that DOJ should defend existing laws in court so long as...
Covered California strong-arms hospitals into cutting services
The Obama administration once touted Covered California as a wonderful example of state health insurance exchanged.
However, in the wake of more freedoms offered to Americans under President Trump (e.g., the end of the individual mandate), it turns out many Californians are opting out of forced purchase of health insurance. This is...
Maryland’s Obamacare Insurers Request Rate Increases Up to 91% in 2019
Want relief from high Obamacare premiums? You’re out of luck in Maryland where insurers have asked for a rate increase of up to 91% in 2019.
The state’s health insurance commissioner called the rate increase a consequence of a “death spiral.”
20 states sue federal government, trying to pull the plug on Obamacare
The last time we looked at the status of former President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, congressional Republicans had pulled the plug on Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which Republicans have tagged as the “Death Panel”.
Obamacare “Death Panel” killed
Perhaps the two aspects of Donald Trump’s presidency that I admire the most are is ability to go around supposedly immovable blocks to his proposals and the way he stiffens the spines of his fellow Republicans.
After the humiliating Obamacare repeal failure of 2017, many weaker men would have moved on...
Republicans Have Their Tax Plan: What’s In it And What’s Not
The drama is almost over as the Republicans have unveiled their tax bill. They are also closer to victory since Sen. Bob Corker (TN) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have decided to back the bill, leaving the Senate with only two undecided Republicans. From The New York Times:
On Friday, as Republicans...
26-year-olds struggle as they age out of their parent’s health insurance plans
26-year-olds aging out of the parent’s health insurance policy are stuck on the struggle bus, reports CNN.
Adulting, it would seem, is hard.
Federal Judge Refuses to Force Payment of Obamacare Subsidies
Wednesday, a federal judge refused to force the Trump administration to make subsidy payments.
Iowa Pulls Waiver Requesting Obamacare Overhaul
In August, Iowa officials submitted a request to make changes to its Obamacare market as it faced doom due to high premiums and insurance companies dropping out. Officials wanted to make changes that would “provide consumers with age- and income-based tax credits as well as using a reinsurance mechanism...
