The Trump administration is taking credit for a recent 1.5 percent drop in 2019 premiums for the second-lowest silver plan under Obamacare. This is the benchmark health care coverage level that subsidies are based upon. This year, the largest premium reduction is in...
Quite a few of the healthcare policy decisions made by the Trump administration have been mired in partisanship and acrimony, but this is certainly not the case with a proposed rule recently published on the Federal Register. The rule in question involves the...
One in five Americans will go without the health care he needs because he can’t afford it. To decrease the out-of-pocket cost for patients, the federal government wants to make drug companies include in television ads the price of drugs and biological chemicals...
On October 22, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that states would be given authority to relax some of the guidelines for insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Framed as giving states “the flexibility to lower premiums and...
After drawn-out legal proceedings with the Justice Department, CVS Health and Aetna have finally agreed to a gigantic $69 billion merger deal. provided that the companies divest part of the business prior to officially merging. This merger is the most recent in a...
This year marks the sixth enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act, which set aside a period each year during which people could buy health insurance or change their existing plans. While job-based health plans have their own signup period, everyone else must...
