Your CBO Cheat Sheet: 5 Takeaways from GOP Health Bill
An estimated 23 million additional Americans will become uninsured over the next decade if the current version of the Republican health care bill goes into effect, according to a Congressional Budget...
View ArticleGOP Health Bill Pleases Most Republicans, But Not Many Others
The health overhaul bill passed by the House earlier this month accomplishes one major feat: It is even less popular than the not-very-popular Affordable Care Act it would largely replace, a new poll...
View ArticleSingle Payer Economics: One Health Plan, Two New Taxes, Three Ways to Save
A new outside analysis claims a “single payer” health system for California would cost $330 billion a year, not $400 billion, the initial price tag announced last week in a legislative report. The...
View ArticleMedi-Cal Patients Flocking to ERs More Than Before ACA
Medi-Cal patients are swamping California emergency rooms in greater numbers than they did before the Affordable Care Act took effect, despite predictions that the health law would ease the burden on...
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Blaming ‘Threat’ of GOP Health Bill, California Hits Pause on Single Payer
Single-payer health care, a longtime goal of progressive Democrats and the nurses’ union, is dead for now. No further legislative action will be taken in 2017. A bill pushing a state-based single-payer...
View ArticleCalifornians Contemplate ‘Unthinkable Choices’ if GOP Health Plan Becomes Law
People in the state’s health industry, from advocates to clinic directors, were left reeling by the new CBO report, which estimated the Senate Republican health plan would create an additional 22...
View ArticlePatients With Pre-Existing Conditions Fear Bias Under GOP Health Proposals
Cheasanee Huette, a 20-year-old college student in Northern California, is worried. Two years ago, knowing she was protected by the Affordable Care Act’s guarantees of coverage for preexisting...
View ArticleCheat Sheet: How Would the Republican Health Plan Affect Me?
When covering the GOP efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, we tend to focus on the big picture: billions of cuts in Medicaid spending, say, or millions fewer people with health...
View ArticleHealth Care Vote Delay Gives Foes, Supporters More Time
Foes from left and right are using the delayed vote on the Republican health care bill to make it as politically toxic as possible for wavering GOP senators to support it. Over the weekend Senate...
View ArticleThe Senate Health Care Vote, Simplified
The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to advance health care legislation to the Senate floor. That would open up debate on an Obamacare repeal and/or replacement plan. The importance of the...
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CBO: If Trump Cuts Payments To Insurance Companies, It Will Cost Taxpayers
If President Trump decides to cut off payments to insurance companies called for under the Affordable Care Act, it’s going to cost him. Or, more accurately, it’s going to cost taxpayers — about $194...
View ArticleAmid Uncertainty Over Health Care, Covered California Appeals to Insurers’...
With ongoing uncertainty around the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the board that oversees California’s health care marketplace took action to stabilize the exchange on Thursday. Their goal was to convince...
View ArticleA Tale of Two States: California Loses and Texas Wins Under GOP Health Plan
California stands to lose billions in health care funding under the GOP’s latest plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, resulting in millions of Californians losing coverage. The...
View Article‘Devastating’ Cuts to Come: How California Would Suffer Under GOP Health Plan
State officials are sounding the alarm over a last-minute push by Republican Senators to “replace and replace” the Affordable Care Act. Health officials warn it’s the worst proposal yet, with...
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