House Approves First Step In Process Of Dismantling Obamacare
Congress on Friday completed the first - and by far the easiest - step toward gutting President Barack Obama's divisive health care law.
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Congress on Friday completed the first - and by far the easiest - step toward gutting President Barack Obama's divisive health care law.
In a nearly partly-line vote of 51-48, lawmakers approved a nonbinding GOP-backed budget measure that makes it easier for action on subsequent repeal legislation as soon as next month.
In his first press conference since the election, President-Elect Donald Trump called "Obamacare" a "total disaster" and vowed to repeal and replace it immediately.
Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries was joined by three of his House colleagues and warned of a nightmare scenario of 30 million Americans unable to afford healthcare.
The president-elect is making his views known in a series of new tweets and he's taking aim at the Senate's Democratic leader, New York's Chuck Schumer -- a top defender of the health overhaul.
Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he favors protecting patients from being denied coverage based on pre-existing conditions.
Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday.
Arizona will be hit the hardest when Obamacare premiums go up next year.
Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insure.
Bill Clinton is trying to avoid muddling his message again as he campaigns for his wife in battleground Ohio a day after he described President Barack Obama's signature health care law and the resulting insurance markets as "the craziest thing in the world."
Obama renewed a call for a "public option" to let Americans buy insurance from the government.
About 1.6 million people who signed up for coverage this year under President Barack Obama's health care law dropped out by the end of March.
The largest health insurer in Texas wants to raise its rates on individual policies by an average of nearly 60 percent, a new sign that President Barack Obama's overhaul hasn't solved the problem of price spikes.
Many people are still scrambling to change their health insurance after a major insurer, Health Republic, went belly up.
A few days after Franny's in Park Slope added a 3 percent surcharge to cover the costs of "Obamacare" for their employees, the pizzeria's owners changed their mind.
"Obamacare" is on the menu of a Brooklyn restaurant. A new surcharge to cover the costs of healthcare may be hard for some customers to swallow.
Stringer noted that neighborhoods with large immigrant and younger populations saw much higher rates, with more than 22 percent of residents lacking coverage.
The Supreme Court has upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.
Word of stunning statements made by a major architect of the Affordable Care Act has Republicans vowing to repeal it.
Enrollment specialists were on hand at City Hall in Jersey City Saturday, as officials kicked off the second enrollment season of the Affordable Care Act.
With almost a year under its belt, has the Affordable Care Act impact as many people as it originally set out to?
The 5-4 ruling in the so-called "Hobby Lobby" case upheld the right of the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby craft stores -- 600 nationwide -- to opt out of a provision of Obamacare that mandates free birth control.
The rights of women and the powers of employers will be up against each other on Monday, in a case stemming from Obamacare.
A team might include a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, a medical assistant, a care coordinator, a nurse and an office manager. Even a dietician or clinical pharmacist may be part of the team.
The New York State Health Exchange said Wednesday that more than 960,000 New Yorkers have enrolled for insurance coverage by the final deadline the day before.
