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Republican efforts to get rid of the federal health law are expected to take some time to work through Congress and leaders have promised to give consumers time to adjust to those changes.
Dire dental needs and other health problems keep Remote Area Medical’s pop-up free clinics busy in states like Virginia that haven’t expanded Medicaid.Â
A pilot project involving Swedish Medical Center and the Neighborcare Health network of community clinics offers care for uninsured adults or those on Medicaid.
The annual Census report finds that the number of uninsured falls to 29 million from 33 million.
But the remaining uninsured are tough to reach.
Mario Perez was grazed by a bullet at the Pulse Nightclub. His bill from Orlando Regional Medical Center's emergency department was $20,000.
Deportation-relief programs would have meant access to subsidized health care.
Enrollment is nearly double where the state expected to be at the seven-month mark.
Instead of getting a doctor’s prescription, these patients opt to use leftover, unfinished medication from previous ailments.
Immigration status and low incomes are barriers to health care and health insurance for many.
Louisiana’s decision to accept the federal health law program to provide coverage to more low-income residents is being watched around the South, including in Georgia, where deep-seated opposition is showing some small signs of cracks.
Many immigrants lack access to affordable services due to lack of citizenship and legal residency.
In California, backers of a plan to allow adults living in the country illegally to buy coverage on the state’s exchange hurry to get federal approval — fearing opposition or inaction under a new administration.
California is inching closer to a first-in-the-nation request for a federal ruling that would allow the state’s Obamacare exchange to sell health plans to immigrants who are living in the country illegally.
Many low-income households that claim earned income tax credit lack health insurance, Urban Institute finds.
New law applies state's low-income health care program to children in the U.S. illegally.
The novel expansion model is testing how far a state can go under Obamacare in making poor people share responsibility for the cost of health care.Â
A consumer’s guide to the tax penalties for not having insurance.
The federal health law is putting farmers in a tough spot. Many contractors supplying workers have to offer health coverage. Insurance is costly, and contractors worry about immigration fallout.
Candidates -- on both sides -- are bending the facts about the Affordable Care Act.
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