Julie Rovner

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5 Outside-The-Box Ideas For Fixing The Individual Insurance Market

KFF Health News Original

As lawmakers look for ways to stabilize the health law marketplaces, a number of ideas — such as expanding who can “buy in” to Medicare and Medicaid or pushing young adults off their parents’ plans into the marketplaces — might come into play.

In Strong-Arm Tactic, Trump Puts Congressional Health Benefits Into Play

KFF Health News Original

By taking aim at the subsidies received by some congressional staff members who, under the Affordable Care Act, are mandated to get their health coverage from the Obamacare exchanges, the president reignited an old fight.

Cinco poderosas razones por las que fracasó el proyecto de salud republicano

KFF Health News Original

Mientras surgen los análisis post-mortem sobre el colapso del plan de salud republicano del Senado, es claro cómo problemas politicos y de legislación obraron en contra del esfuerzo por reemplazar ACA.

Men Wrote The Senate Health Care Bill. This Woman Could Stop It.

KFF Health News Original

Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate’s parliamentarian, will be in the hot seat as she is called upon to decide which provisions of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bill draft fit the tight rules that allow for it to be passed without a filibuster.

Podcast: What The Health? Senate Bill Sparks Fireworks Before The Fourth

KFF Health News Original

Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post discuss the state of the Senate’s effort to replace Obamacare.

Proyecto de salud del Senado cambiaría Medicaid y limitaría apoyo para las primas

KFF Health News Original

Los republicanos en el Senado revelaron un proyecto de ley de salud que transformaría dramáticamente el programa Medicaid, que ayuda a 70 millones de personas de bajos ingresos a tener cobertura de salud.