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Federal regulators provided more specifics about why they suspended two private sector Affordable Care Act enrollment sites, including concerns about potential overseas accessing of consumer data and suspicions of involvement in Obamacare enrollment and switching schemes. The companies reject the assertions.
Regulators have been under the gun to curb unauthorized Obamacare enrollment and switching of plans. Separately, a pending lawsuit was amended with additional defendants and new allegations regarding tactics to garner greater ACA sales commissions.
While fighting potential fraud in government programs has long been a conservative rallying cry, recent criticisms of the Affordable Care Act represent a renewed line of attack on the program when repealing it is unlikely.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation intended to curb a growing problem in which consumers, without their consent, are enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans or their coverage is switched.
If she grabs the baton from President Joe Biden to become the new presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris would widely be expected to take an aggressive stance in support of abortion access hitting former President Donald Trump on an issue that could undermine his chances of victory.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it has received more than 200,000 complaints in the first six months of the year about people being signed up for Obamacare plans or switched to new plans without their consent.
Republicans were once the party of Obamacare repeal and abortion opposition. Theyve said little about either issue in Milwaukee.
Misleading money-for-groceries ads helped lure people to call centers where some were enrolled in Affordable Care Act coverage or switched from their existing plans without their express permission, a new lawsuit alleges.
After an assassination attempt last weekend sent former President Donald Trump to the hospital with minor injuries, the Republican National Convention went off with little mention of health care issues. And Trumps newly nominated vice presidential pick, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, has barely staked out a record on health during his 18 months in office aside from being strongly opposed to abortion. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University and Politico Magazine join 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews 窪蹋勛圖厙 News Renuka Rayasam, who wrote Junes installment of 窪蹋勛圖厙 News-NPR Bill of the Month, about a patient who walked into what he thought was an urgent care center and walked out with an emergency room bill.
The initiative targets the biggest incentive driving fraudulent sign-ups and plan switches: the commissions that rogue agents or large call centers seek.
Anthony Wright, a champion for Californians health care rights, will take the helm of Families USA in Washington, D.C., where he plans to campaign for more affordable and accessible care nationally. He leaves Health Access California, where he helped outlaw surprise medical billing, require companies to report drug price increases, and cap hospital bills for uninsured patients.
An ongoing lawsuit aims to set aside the Affordable Care Acts requirements that insurers cover preventive care, such as contraception. If that happens, state reproductive health laws varying across the country would carry more weight, resuming the wild West dynamic from before Obamacare.
A Supreme Court ruling restricting federal power will likely have seismic ramifications for health policy. A flood of litigation with plaintiffs like small businesses, drugmakers, and hospitals challenging regulations they say are too expensive or burdensome and not authorized by law could leave the country with a patchwork of disparate health regulations.
A debate marked by President Joe Bidens faltering performance featured clashes over insulin costs, inflation, abortion, immigration, and Jan. 6.
A Biden campaign ad highlighting how an Obamacare repeal would affect people with preexisting conditions is mostly true.
窪蹋勛圖厙 News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in the last two weeks to discuss topical stories. Heres a collection of their appearances.
Most states that saw enrollment in the Obamacare marketplace double from 2020 to 2024 are in the South. But the enhanced federal subsidies that attracted people with $0 premiums and low out-of-pocket costs will expire next year.
With tens of thousands of Americans already affected by enrollment scams that leave some without doctors or treatments, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wants increased enforcement against rogue agents or other perpetrators and legislation to allow for criminal penalties.
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