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Adultos mayores tendrán ajustes del Seguro Social, pero pagarán más por el Medicare

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Millones de adultos mayores pronto serán notificados (si no lo han sido ya) que las primas del Medicare para servicios médicos están aumentando y podrían consumir el ajuste de costo de vida que recibirán el próximo año del Seguro Social.

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

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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.

Why One Insurer’s Collapse Could Whack Insurers, Policyholders Across the Country

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Little-known rules require all health insurance companies to help pay claims when any one of them fails. Penn Treaty failed big — and insurers around the country are likely to pass those costs onto policyholders.

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

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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.

Millones de personas enfermas enfrentarían primas altísimas, según nuevo informe

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El reporte dado a conocer por la Oficina de Presupuesto del Congreso indica que bajo una ley republicana de salud habría 23 millones de personas más sin seguro, y que millones pagarían mucho más por la atención de salud.

Preexisting Conditions And Continuous Coverage: Key Elements Of GOP Bill

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The Republican health plan would require insurers to offer coverage to people who have preexisting medical conditions. But if states opt to allow insurers to charge sick people more than healthy ones, people who have been more than 63 days without coverage could see significantly higher insurance costs.

HHS, States Move To Help Insurers Defray Costs Of Sickest Patients

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In a letter to all governors, HHS Secretary Tom Price invited them to consider seeking federal help to set up reinsurance funds that would help cover losses that insurers have because of high numbers of sick patients.

Conservatives’ Goal To Relax Mandatory Health Benefits Unlikely To Tame Premiums

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The federal health law requires most insurance plans to offer 10 specific categories of essential benefits. Conservatives would like to get rid of that rule in the hopes of bringing down premium costs.