President Obama feted the 50th anniversary of Medicare andMedicaid in his weekly address and...Boland, Barbara
I) Amidthe political noise about Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, health insurance and thievingpharmaceutical (医 药的) companies, Kelli Harding stands apart from the crowd calling for quick fixes, the simpler the better. She has walk...
However, 12 states, largely in the South, have chosen not to expand Medicaid, wanting to avoid the additional budgetary expense and the appearance of supporting “Obamacare” (as the ACA is still often called). The result is what has come to be known as the “Medicaid coverage gap.” ...
However, it’s important to note that the decision to expand Medicaid was left to individual states, leading to variations in eligibility criteria and availability of coverage. This resulted in ongoing debates and discussions about the program’s impact on state budgets, healthcare access, and the...
ObamaCare is a nickname for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (sometimes called the Affordable Care Act, ACA, or PPACA for short), a health reform law signed on March 23, 2010, by President Barack Obama.
However, Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges. These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families. With Obamacare there is...
Obamacare did not create a public insurance program. It is a legal framework that imposed obligations on private insurers—and individuals—in order to better regulate the market and expand coverage. Only two US federal health insurance programs exist: Medicaid, for the lowest-income families and ...
. He got Medicare and Medicaid enacted because he weighed into the details, twisted congressional arms, threatened and cajoled, drew lines in the sand, and went to war against the AMA and the other giant lobbyists standing in the way. The question now is how much LBJ is in Barack Obama...
Not according to this view. The other half of what’s needed to pay for universal health care will come from health-care savings that are also necessary to keep the current big health-care entitlement programs — Medicare and Medicaid — affordable. It’s just common sense: Allow government ...
Dr. Mehmet Oz seems tobe drawing more enthusiasmfrom Senate Republicans to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicesthan Trump’s selection to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Several Republicans told POLITICO that Oz is “well respect...