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The GOP proposal to replace the ACA eliminates the individual mandate and expands the role of HSAs.
March 6 -
Attendees at the Monday meeting will include chief executives of some of the biggest U.S. health insurers, like UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., Independence Blue Cross and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.
February 24 -
New details of the plan are beginning to emerge, which would do away with the ACA's requirement that all Americans have health coverage or pay a fine, and replace it with rules that let people choose not to buy insurance, instead paying higher premiums or penalties if they need it later.
February 24 -
The companies came to a mutual agreement to terminate the deal, and Aetna will pay Humana a $1 billion breakup fee, or about $630 million after taxes.
February 14 -
The vote was 52-47, making Price the most contentious nominee for the position since at least President Jimmy Carter’s administration.
February 10 -
Pharmacy benefits managers lay out lobby plan in strategy memo as the middlemen are now taking it from all sides.
February 9 -
After 18 months of courtship and court cases, two massive deals that would have reshaped the U.S. health insurance industry have both been declared dead, blocked by judges who said they’d do unacceptable harm to competition in the industry.
February 9 -
President Donald Trump said the process for coming up with a replacement for the Affordable Care Act could stretch into 2018, a longer time frame than he previously indicated.
February 6 -
Fewer people in the U.S. signed up for Obamacare coverage for this year, according to a preliminary report, as enrollments slowed after the Trump administration vowed it would do away with the health law.
February 4 -
Some Republicans in Congress are starting to talk more about trying to “repair” Obamacare, rather than simply calling for “repeal and replace.”
February 2 -
The financial results show the insurer prospering in a challenging environment.
January 31 -
Democrats began a key hearing on the president's pick to overhaul the ACA by attacking his aggressive investing in healthcare companies.
January 24 -
The transaction would violate antitrust laws by reducing competition among insurers, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington ruled on Monday.
January 23 -
Such a move would take the teeth out of former President Barack Obama’s healthcare law and could destabilize insurance markets, analysts say.
January 23 -
Rep. Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, will appear for the first time before U.S. senators Wednesday amid growing ethics concerns and uncertainty among Republicans about how they will repeal and replace the ACA.
January 18 -
The U.S.’s biggest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., will buy Surgical Care Affiliates Inc. for about $2.3 billion, further diversifying by adding an outpatient surgery chain.
January 9 -
Affordable Care Act sign-ups for 2017 coverage rose about 2.3% from the same time last year, as efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reform begin in Congress.
January 5 -
Facing a years-long wait before they can fully implement a planned repeal of the Affordable Care Act, Republicans lawmakers are exploring how the Trump administration can quickly trim required health insurance benefits under the law and lower the cost of health plans.
December 23 -
More than 4 million people picked ACA plans in the 39 states that use the federal HealthCare.gov marketplace in the first six weeks of the 2017 sign-up period.
December 14 -
Obama suggested areas of the health law to keep during Trump's Thursday meeting with the President.
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