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Business Groups Split On Medicaid Expansion

By Phil Galewitz March 10, 2014 KFF Health News Original

With several states weighing whether to expand Medicaid under the federal health law, supporters are looking to powerful business groups to help sway skeptical state legislators. But those groups are split on the issue — just like the public at large. Nationally, the National Federation of Independent Business,  which represents mostly small employers, remains opposed to the […]

Obama Urges Latinos To Sign Up For Insurance Now

By Phil Galewitz March 6, 2014 KFF Health News Original

President Barack Obama appealed directly to Latinos on Thursday, telling them time is running out to sign up for health coverage this year and that they should enroll now to avoid problems. Open enrollment in the health law’s online health insurance marketplaces closes March 31 for coverage this year and that date won’t be extended, Obama said […]

Tenet Expects 15% Of Its Uninsured To Get Obamacare Coverage

By Phil Galewitz February 25, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Tenet Healthcare Corp., the nation’s third largest for-profit hospital operator, said Tuesday it expects 15 percent of its uninsured patients to get covered this year as a result of the Affordable Care Act. But the company isn’t counting yet on any higher profits from the shift, Tenet officials said after a conference call with Wall Street […]

Arkansas Medicaid Fight All About The Math, Governor Says

By Phil Galewitz February 24, 2014 KFF Health News Original

http://admin.brightcove.com/js/BrightcoveExperiences.js brightcove.createExperiences();Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says his strategy to win over state lawmakers skeptical about continuing the state’s Medicaid expansion is to show them the money. “It’s arithmetic, it’s not even math,” Beebe said Monday at a media briefing sponsored by Kaiser Health News and Health Affairs. The Democratic governor said if the Arkansas legislature opts against going […]

Report: Latinos Could Be Big Winners From Obamacare

By Phil Galewitz February 11, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Latinos make up a disproportionate share of the nation’s uninsured and most could get coverage from the Affordable Care Act or existing programs if every state expanded Medicaid,  according to a federal report released Tuesday. The report said that if all states expanded Medicaid, as many as 95 percent of eligible, uninsured Latinos might qualify for […]

For High-Risk Women, Some Breast Cancer Drugs To Be Free

By Phil Galewitz January 9, 2014 KFF Health News Original

Starting next September, women at increased risk for breast cancer will be able to get some drugs shown to help prevent the disease without a co-pay, the Obama administration said Thursday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force  recommended last September that clinicians give medications such as tamoxifen or raloxifene to such women to reduce their risk of the disease. […]

Catastrophic Obamacare Policies Prove Hard Sell So Far

By Phil Galewitz December 20, 2013 KFF Health News Original

The Obama administration’s decision this week to allow people to buy catastrophic-level policies if their individual health plans had been canceled comes amid reports that few people have bought these less expensive policies sold in new online insurance marketplaces. In California, only 1 percent of those who had picked a plan in the first two months since the marketplace opened […]