Ron DeSantis’s First Principle: Do Harm
Obamacare repealer Rep. Ron DeSantis, whose congressional district includes Flagler, has a solution for cancer patients without insurance: the emergency room. A few corrections are in order. The post...
View ArticleLawmakers’ Letters to Constituents on Health Care Are Full of Lies and...
As the GOP tries to rewrite--or "repeal and replace--the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers in both parties are incorrectly citing statistics, making false claims and leaving out important context in...
View ArticleGOP Plan Scraps Individual Mandate Only to Create New, 30% Penalty For Laggards
The GOP approach is called a “continuous coverage” penalty. It increases premiums for people who buy insurance if they have gone 63 consecutive days without a policy during the past 12 months. The post...
View ArticleAs Washington Piddles, Liberal California Forges Ahead With Universal Health...
Organized labor and two lawmakers are leading the charge for a single, government-financed program for everyone in the state. Another legislator wants to create a commission that would weigh the best...
View ArticlePreexisting Condition: How Health Care Wrangle May Play Out Over Obamacare...
As Trump pushes for a bill, the latest snag is over whether people with preexisting health conditions should have guaranteed access to affordable coverage, as the ACA mandates. The post Preexisting...
View ArticleDavid Ottati Returns: Ex-Florida Hospital Flagler CEO Takes Over 3-County Region
David Ottati's rise in the Adventist organization is again bringing him to Flagler County as he takes over leadership of a seven hospital-region including Florida Hospital Flagler. The post David...
View ArticleGOP Defends Health Bill With Euphemisms, False Statements and Deleted Comments
Since the passage of the American Health Care Act, Republican members of Congress have tried to swing public opinion to their side, but through deceptive means. The post GOP Defends Health Bill With...
View ArticleLatest Republican Health Bill Cuts Costs At Expense of People With...
The proposal would let insurers sell health coverage outside the ACA exchanges with no provisions for prescription drugs, mental illness, hospitalization or almost any other benefit. The post Latest...
View ArticleObamacare Exchanges In Limbo as GOP Repeal Fails and Trump Ramps Up Sabotage...
Even as premiums increase about 18 percent, Florida Blue, the state’s largest health insurer, said those rates would go even higher if government subsidies disappeared. The post Obamacare Exchanges In...
View ArticleTrump Administration Plan to Add Medicaid Work Requirement Stirs Fears
advocates who see the changes as a way for states to kick millions of adults off the program and undermine its mission of providing health coverage to the poor. The post Trump Administration Plan to...
View ArticleSmall Businesses to Obamacare’s SHOP Option: Not Interested
Nationally, about 85,000 people have coverage through the online marketplace known as the Small Business Health Options Program, less than a tenth of original projections. The post Small Businesses to...
View ArticleSanders Revives Talk of Single-Payer System, Contrasting Differences With...
Sanders’ main rival for the nomination, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has criticized the plan for raising taxes on the middle class and said it is politically unattainable. The post...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Moving to Undermine Obamacare By Limiting Enrollment
major insurers are seeking to sharply limit how policies are sold to individuals in ways that consumer advocates say seem to discriminate against the sickest and could hold down future enrollment. The...
View ArticleThree Changes You Can Expect In Next Year’s Obamacare Coverage
Ahead: more warning about “surprise” medical bills from out-of-network providers, more standardized out-of-pocket costs and better information about the size of the insurers’ network of doctors and...
View ArticleIRS Could Easily Signal to 10 Million Uninsured Working Poor Eligibility for...
About half of the uninsured people in families receiving the earned income tax credit are eligible for significant financial assistance — 4.1 million are eligible for Medicaid, and another 1.1 million...
View ArticleFlorida Health Summit Concludes With One Overriding Prescription: Expand...
While senators have focused heavily on access, the House and Scott have pushed for health-care changes that include reducing or eliminating some longstanding regulations. They contend that such ideas...
View ArticleObama Renews Call for Public Option in Health Law to Compete With Private...
Before the public option was dropped in 2010 many liberals hoped — and conservatives feared — that having the government provide insurance alongside private companies would be a step toward a full...
View ArticlePyrrhic Vanishing: Democrats Unite, But What Happened To Medicare For All?
Most health policy analysts — including those who are sympathetic to the idea — say moving from the current U.S. public-private hybrid health system to one fully funded by the government in one step is...
View ArticleThose Double-Digit Health Insurance Rate Hikes in Florida? Blame State GOP.
Sen. Bill Nelson, once Florida's insurance commissioner, reminds residents that it was the Republican state Legislature that stripped the office of insurance regulation of the authority to approve,...
View ArticleOpting Out of Obamacare: When Penalties Are Preferable to Unaffordable Premiums
Amid the uncertain future of Obamacare in a Trump administration, some resisters are feeling vindicated and other consumers simply don’t see the need to sign up. The post Opting Out of Obamacare: When...
View ArticleHow Trump’s Health Secretary Will Alter Policy from Obamacare to Abortion to...
Tom Price, a Georgia physician who opposes the Affordable Care Act, abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood, among other things, could have a rapid impact without even a presidential order or an...
View ArticleWith Florida leading the Way, Obamacare Enrollment Jumps Despite Trump Threats
Despite the Affordable Care Act’s rising prices, decreased insurer participation and a vigorous political threat to its survival, consumer enrollment for 2017 is outpacing last year’s. The post With...
View ArticleOnly 20 Percent Of Americans Support Health Law Repeal Without Replacement Plan
More than a third of those said they would not want the law repealed after being told that some people with preexisting health problems would no longer be able to get insurance. The post Only 20...
View ArticleTrump On Your Side? Repealing Obamacare Is a Tax Break For Rich at Poors’...
If Obama's health law is reversed, taxes will go down for the rich and up for the poor, while millions lose coverage. It is redistribution for the wealthy. The post Trump On Your Side? Repealing...
View ArticleHealth Savings Accounts Gain GOP Favor as Obamacare Sub; Gimmickry May Hurt Most
Expanding the use of such accounts, greatly favored by Wall Street, is part of almost every GOP replacement plan under consideration on Capitol Hill. But less well off people and the sick would not...
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