Obamacare cost-cutting board faces growing opposition from DemocratsThe Hill
Promises: To make care more affordable Reality: After Obamacare was signed, the President changed his promise to affordable insurance, not care. Getting CARE, not coverage, is the reason for healthcare. To make insurance more affordable The cost of insurance has doubled! What was unaffordable...
Health insurance premiums have risen dramatically over the past decade in response to the rising cost of health care services. The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) helped to make health insurance accessible and affordable to more Americans by creating health insurance marketplaces or “exchanges”...
ACA (Affordable Care Act) plans are health insurance plans offered through the Health Insurance Marketplace. They are divided into four tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Each tier represents a different balance between the cost of monthly premiums and the cost of care. Bronze Planshave...
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To try to keep Obamacare premiums low, some states are allowing insurers to charge patients a hefty share of the cost for expensive medications used to treat such chronic diseases as cancer, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
AboutDeb Gordon Deb Gordon, the co-founder and CEO of Umbra Health Advocacy, has held executive roles in health insurance and health care technology services. She authored a book titled “The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto,” based on her research as a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy Schoo...
in 2023, 73 Million people will be covered by Medicare and it will cost them a monumental $1.1 Trillion. People are choosing, instead of where to get care and how quickly they can get there, whether or not to even get care. The expense ofmedicineis because of how difficult it is to ...
A new surveysuggests that Obamacare has led to declines in the number of people burdened by health-care-related financial problems, as the rate of people who lack health insurance is driven down to new lows. The Commonwealth Fund, which conducts the survey every two years, said the new repo...
DURHAM, N.C. — The Latest on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina announcing it’s seeking to lower rates for next year’s Affordable Care Act policies by 4.1…