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ACA Repeal Threatens A Black Lung Provision Popular In Coal Country

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The Affordable Care Act simplified and speeded up the complex process that allows coal miners who have black lung to get special benefits. Many in coal country want this reform to stay if the rest of the law is repealed.

Aetna Breaks Ties To Man Who Sold Policies To Hundreds Of Homeless

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Aetna is ending its relationship with a Charlotte insurance agent who used the Affordable Care Act to sell premium-free policies to hundreds of homeless people while the N.C. Department of Insurance continues its review of the arrangement. The state has scheduled a Sept. 3 “informal administrative conference” on the sales, which sparked questions and criticism […]

Prescription Drug Price Battles Show No Sign Of Letting Up

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A pair of new cholesterol drugs is renewing a battle between pharmaceutical companies, which charge huge sums of money for new blockbuster drugs, and payers for those treatments, which include insurers, Medicare and Medicaid.

More Patients, Not Fewer, Turn To Health Clinics After Obamacare

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Patients are flocking to community health clinics for care in North Carolina and elsewhere. Clinic leaders think health law advertising has driven up demand, especially for people in the Medicaid gap.

Pennsylvania Governor Plans State Insurance Exchange To Protect Subsidies

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It is unclear whether the Republican-dominated General Assembly has to approve Wolf’s plan, which is designed protect residents’ subsidies should the Supreme Court void subsidies in states that rely on the federal exchange.

More Than 1.3M Floridians May Lose Their Obamacare Subsidies, More Than Any Other State

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The subsidies are at the center of a Supreme Court case challenging the health law. In King v. Burwell, the plaintiffs argue that the language of the health law restricts the subsidies to states that established their own exchanges.