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The cost of Obamacare, is much more sensitive than people previously appreciated to employers decisions to drop coverage, says Jay Bhattacharya, an economist and Stanford associate professor of medicine.
The navigators are considered crucial to the Obama administrations effort to enroll at least 7 million of those people in health plans through online marketplaces scheduled to open Oct. 1.
The Obama administration is pushing back against a Republican investigation of the nonprofit groups enlisted to help people navigate their Affordable Care Act options, saying the inquiry may impede the laws implementation.
The Affordable Care Act is the best chance for the U.S. to achieve near universal medical coverage and curb health care costs that hurt the nations global competitiveness, former President Bill Clinton said.
A 25-year-old New Yorker earning $25,000 a year will pay as little as $62 a month for health insurance next year, and a peer living in Vermont may pay nothing, according to a 17-state survey of premiums under the U.S. health care overhaul.
This is a blatant and shameful attempt to intimidate groups who will be working to inform Americans about their new health insurance options and help them enroll in coverage, says one spokeswoman.
Supporters of the U.S. health care overhaul are criticizing a House panels scrutiny of nonprofit groups set to help enroll people in new insurance plans, saying its part of a Republican effort to impede the law.
The U.S. government needs to offset misinformation about the health care law being circulated in states led by Republican governors, according to the Obama administration official responsible for implementation.
The subsidy should reduce the cost of the premiums by about 32% on average for people buying the second-lowest priced plans through state-by-state insurance exchanges set to open Oct. 1, the Kaiser Family Foundation said in a report today.
Oregon, a Democratic-led state that has embraced President Barack Obamas Affordable Care Act, wont meet all the requirements for its health insurance exchange when the online marketplace opens Oct. 1.
Security testing for a new computer system underpinning the U.S. health care overhaul is behind schedule, leaving little margin for error to meet an Oct. 1 deadline, government auditors said.
Online health insurance broker EHealth Inc. won permission from the U.S. government to enroll customers for subsidized plans offered under the federal health care law.
The top two U.S. health officials are planning multiple trips in the coming months to states led by Republicans hostile to the Affordable Care Act, seeking success there for President Barack Obamas health care overhaul despite opposition.
There is no economic evidence the U.S. health care overhaul is slowing employment, Obama administration officials say, pushing back against Republican characterizations the law is killing jobs.
A $267 million computer system built by a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc. is one of the most important determiners of whether the Affordable Care Act succeeds.
Freeing companies from a U.S.- government mandate to offer employees health care is setting off a chain of events that may enlarge the pool of uninsured Americans. That may be good for President Barack Obamas health care overhaul.
Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to join with the largest federation of health insurers to promote the Affordable Care Act, lending a hand as the Obama administration strains to win over the public.
The Obama administration will delay a crucial provision of its signature health care law, giving businesses an extra year to comply with a requirement that they provide their workers with insurance.
Almost a third of 32 hospitals and health systems involved in the ACO experiment aimed at changing the way medical providers are paid may exit the program, a potential threat to the Affordable Care Acts ambitious cost-saving goals.
An exemption allowing religious groups to avoid covering the cost of birth control as required by the U.S. Affordable Care Act wont be expanded, the Obama administration said.