
Forced off their parents’ insurance and faced with high insulin prices, young adults dangerously ration, stockpile, and turn to the black market for the medication they need to stay alive
Quick ReadForced off their parents’ insurance and faced with high insulin prices, young adults dangerously ration, stockpile, and turn to the black market for the medication they need to stay alive
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Why I Support Medicaid ExpansionMay 23, 2019 |
In this AJOB editorial, Governor Laura Kelly of Kansas explains her support for expanding Medicaid to eliminate a “cruel coverage gap” for nearly 150,000 Kansans
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Judge Blocks Trump Birth Control Policy In 13 States And DCJanuary 14, 2019 |
A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration rule that would greatly expand the number of employers that could decline to offer contraceptive coverage on moral or religious grounds
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Why the Texas Ruling on Obamacare Is On Shaky Legal GroundDecember 17, 2018 |
Simon Haeder & Valarie Blake argue, based on their expertise as health policy scholars, that this ruling will likely not undo the law. It does, however, add more uncertainty to the ACA while also showing how much Republicans continue to be willing to fight to destroy the law
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20 States File New Lawsuit Arguing Obamacare Is IllegalMarch 1, 2018 |
The suit, filed in a Texas district court on Tuesday, makes a new legal argument that relies on Congress’s recent repeal of the individual mandate penalty.
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Has Obamacare Helped Fuel the Opioid Epidemic?February 20, 2018 |
“What that analysis leaves out is that the rate of increase was higher in the expansion states in all the years preceding Medicaid expansion,” Brendan Saloner, an assistant professor in health policy at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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As Some Got Free Health Care, Gwen Got Squeezed: An Obamacare DilemmaFebruary 20, 2018 |
Gwen Hurd got the letter just before her shift at the outlet mall. Her health insurance company informed her that coverage for her family of three, purchased through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, would cost almost 60 percent more this year — $1,200 a month
Quick ReadAn obscure Obamacare provision forces rural hospitals to pay full price for drugs that many bigger hospitals buy at deeply discounted rates
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