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Nursing Homes Move Into The Insurance Business

By Jordan Rau July 13, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Although proponents say the policies offered by nursing homes are more attuned to patients, some report frustrations when trying to dispute care decisions.

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For Better Or Worse, Trump And GOP Now Own Health Care

By Julie Rovner April 4, 2017 KFF Health News Original

More than six in 10 people think that moving forward the responsibility for dealing with the health law falls to President Donald Trump and Republicans controlling Congress, Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds.

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Preexisting Conditions And Continuous Coverage: Key Elements Of GOP Bill

By Michelle Andrews May 16, 2017 KFF Health News Original

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.

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Should Health Care Trainees Be Treated As Paid Employees?

By Anna Gorman May 8, 2017 KFF Health News Original

A bill pending in California’s Legislature, sponsored by an influential health care union, would require hospitals and clinics to pay minimum wage to student trainees.

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Texas Hospitals Fear Losing $6.2B Medicaid Deal 

By Phil Galewitz June 26, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Texas is asking the Trump administration to renew a 2011 agreement set to expire in December that helps pay hospitals’ costs of caring for the state’s uninsured residents.

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GOP Bill’s Unheralded Changes In Rules Could Undermine Health Of Neediest

By Emily Bazar March 20, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Lesser-known provisions in the Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act would push some Medicaid enrollees out of coverage and cause financial pain for others.

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KHN On Call: Answers To Questions On Tax Credits, Penalties And Age Ratings

By Alison Kodjak, NPR News and Julie Rovner March 20, 2017 KFF Health News Original

KHN and NPR answer your questions on the GOP health bill.

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Reactions To The GOP Health Bill: Voices From The States

May 10, 2017 KFF Health News Original

What will happen to people with preexisting conditions is one worry some Americans expressed; the high costs of insurance under Obamacare is another.

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Florida Congressman Draws Jeers At Home For Backing Failed GOP Health Care Plan

By Phil Galewitz April 17, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Rep. Brian Mast, a first-term Republican congressman, defends his party’s push to repeal Obamacare in a meeting with constituents but concedes its health care plan needs more work.

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Tax Day Is Zero Hour For Health Insurance, Too

By Julie Rovner April 17, 2017 KFF Health News Original

People who don’t have insurance coverage or get federal assistance to pay their insurance premiums need to take a little extra care when completing their tax forms.

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Say What? Fact-Checking The Chatter Around The GOP Health Bill

By Julie Rovner March 13, 2017 KFF Health News Original

In the heated political arguments as Republicans rush to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, some facts can get buried.

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In Face Of Skepticism, Republicans Vows Repeal Will Happen By 2019

September 28, 2017 Morning Briefing

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump remains optimistic that there will be movement in the next few months. “[In] the meantime, I have that little period of time, I’ll negotiate with the Democrats if we can come up with a fantastic health care bill, that’s okay with me. Good for both parties. Bipartisan,” the president says.

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Obamacare Exchanges In Limbo

By Chad Terhune and Julie Appleby July 19, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The failure this week of the U.S. Senate’s ACA repeal effort was one more twist in the ongoing political drama that has complicated routine rate setting for insurers and state officials.

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GOP Has No Choice But To Keep Pushing Health Care Rock Up The Hill

By Julie Rovner April 6, 2017 KFF Health News Original

The White House continues to look for a policy “win” while members of the House are concerned about heading home for the spring recess where they could “get hammered” for not fulfilling their promise to repeal Obamacare.

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‘It’s Not Like Other States’: High-Cost Alaska Sits In The Eye Of Health Reform Storm

By JoNel Aleccia April 5, 2017 KFF Health News Original

With the most expensive medical care and health insurance premiums in the nation, Alaska seeks a novel way to bail out Obamacare.

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A Fact Check Finds Many Misleading Letters From Lawmakers On Health Care

By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica March 22, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Four news organizations read through letters sent by 51 senators and 134 members of the House dealing with the health care debate.

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Repeal, Replace … Revise: Your Guide To How A Trump Proposal Might Change ACA Insurance

By Julie Appleby April 13, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Even though the GOP health plan is stalled by intraparty negotiations, some big insurance changes are still in the works.

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Many Californians Could Be Priced Out Of Exchange Coverage, Analysis Finds

By Ana B. Ibarra March 16, 2017 KFF Health News Original

California’s health insurance exchange released an analysis showing that Republicans’ plan to trim subsidies, on average, by 40% would fall hard on elderly and very low-income people, especially in expensive areas like San Francisco.

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Health Care Worries Pull Crowd To Conservative Ohio Rep’s Town Hall

By Rachel Bluth April 25, 2017 KFF Health News Original

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sparked discord at his meeting with his district’s voters Monday when he suggested churches, schools and families are best able to handle the opioid epidemic rather than the federal government.

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

By Steven Findlay April 25, 2017 KFF Health News Original

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.

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